The Bathing in Blood

There's no evidence that Elizabeth bathery bathed in the blood of her victims. The bathing in blood thing probably came as part of the vampire craze about 200 years after she died. Ersebeth had a big network of nobles and servants whose job it was to go kidnap new girls for the torture rooms, because it was hard to get them to just come be laundresses. A new scheme was developed because we were reaching the end of the easy pickets. It had been a custom at the time for families of lower nobility to send their children to a sort of finishing school at the houses of women like ersbat.