Introduction

Countess elizabeth bathery was a wealthy and powerful countess in sixteenth and seventeenth century hungary. She is often positioned, including by the ginnis book of world records, as the most prolific female sereal killer of all time. Bathery would stick needles beneath finger nails, cut off flesh, whip servants with stinging nettles, or force girls naked into freezing ice baths. Her story has travelled as folk lore and word of mouth horror story, as pop history and now spooky in ernet irreverence. Welcome to noble blood, a production of ehart radio and grim and mild from aaron manke. Listener, discretion is