Horror Haiku Club Prompt

June 11 - Elizabeth Báthory

A Hungarian noblewoman who lived from 1560 to 1614, Elizabeth Báthory was said to have killed over 300 peasant girls so she could bath in their blood.

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Your prompt is ELIZABETH BÁTHORY.

Hungarian blood

Flows in her great corridors

A cruel immortal

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Historians now think that her crimes were exaggerated so male relatives could take possession of the large landholdings she’d inherited when her husband died. I say exaggerated because she was, by several accounts, still a very cruel and sadistic woman, just probably not bathing in blood.