Bathori, Elizabeth (Bath`ori, Elizabeth) , a Polish princess, a woman of infamous memory, caused some 650 young girls to be put to death, in order, by bathing in their blood, to renew her beauty; immersed in a fortress for life on the discovery of the crime, while her accomplices were burnt alive; (d. 1614).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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