In 1610, Countessa Bathori (sometimes spelled Bathory) was caught red-handed in the act of drinking human blood in Csejtl Castle, also in the Carpathians. At her trial she described how, years earlier, she had hit a maid, for brushing her hair the wrong way, so hard that blood spattered her face. When she washed off the blood and looked in the mirror, her face appeared more beautiful. From that moent, she began to bathe regularly in virgins' blood- and , to obtain it, she murdered 600 peasant girls. Three of them were found, bound, tortured and drained of blood, in the dungeons of her caslte where villagers forced their way in. The Countess' three accomplices were burned at the stake in 1611, but because of her noble birth she couldn't be executed. Instead she was walled up alive in her castle (in another book I read she was locked in her room and everday the guards saw her drinking her own blood to stay alive), and although she died on Aigist 2 1614, many believed she had achieved immorality though drinking human blood and could continue to claim victims.