not to mention a schlock-horror film about her, and a heavy metal band of
the same name
dave e
----- Original Message -----
From: "jacqueline simpson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: Persian Vampires
> Further re Countess Elizabeth Barthory -- though she
> is sometimes included in popular books on vampires,
> it's not really accurate to say she was 'accused of
> vampirism', if by 'vampire' one means an undead being
> which emerges from its grave to suck blood. She was by
> no means dead! What she was accused of was arranging
> to have peasant girls abducted and wounded (not, as
> far as I remember, killed) so that she could wash her
> face in their blood. She tought this would preserve
> her youthful beauty. The whole thing may have been a
> put-up job by her enemies. Two of her servants were
> tortured, supposedly confessed, and were either killed
> or died under tyhe torture, She herself was never
> brought to trial, just made a prisoner in one of her
> own castles. There's a very melodramatic and (I'm
> told) unreliable book by a French author, called 'The
> Blood Countess', which has been translated into
> paperback some years ago. I think I've seen something
> better, but can't remember where. Do you want me to
> hunt? I may not be able to get to a library for some
> while, having sprained my ankle.
>
> Jacqueline
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> --- steve ash <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I have a distant memory of a Persian Countess,
> > married
> > to a Russian Count I think, being accused of
> > vampirism, but can't find the source or details. I
> > think it may have come from Montague Summers, but a
> > swift perusal of his works has failed to find
> > anything. Anyone?
> >
> > On a related not I've often read John Keel claim he
> > has seen 'portraits' of medieval vampires, but have
> > no
> > idea what he's on about. Anyone?
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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