The Black Knight and the Woman to the Stomach of a Horse

Batori was raised Calvinist. She might have been treated with blood. She probably witnessed cruelty at the hands of her parents. It's also really unlikely that she poisoned him, although I would not rule it out. Her three accomplices did confess to doing all those things while they were having their fingers ripped off with red hot pinchers and being burned alive. They never acted as witnesses in court. The whole trial was almost certainly just about money and power. And then later, the folkloric demonization of this Hungarian aristocrat was useful for Slavok nationalism. So it became a useful folklore.