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the black arts, sorcery and alchemy. One strange individual arrived at the castle with a reputation for drinking human blood. She urged him to teach her everything about it.
    Erzsébet and Nádasdy had four children, but he became ill in 1601 and died finally three years later. She was a widow at forty-four.
    She returned to her estates after a spell in Vienna and it was at this point that pretty young women began to disappear from neighbouring villages. She was encouraged in this practice by friends, who joined in her vile activities. The girls were promised that they were going to be taken into service at the castle, but once there, they were subjected to horrific treatment, locked up in cellars, beaten and tortured, often by Erzsébet, herself. Their bodies were then cut up with razors and burned.
    She was known to sew servants’ mouths shut or force them to eat pieces of their own flesh or burn their genitals. When she was ill and could not indulge in these horrors, she would attempt to bite those who approached her bed, like a wild animal. There was so much blood, that ashes were scattered around her bed to absorb it.
    From peasant girls, she shifted her attention to girls of noble families, confident that no one would try to stop her. She offered to teach social graces to them, but when they arrived at Castle Csejthe, she would torture and kill them, as she had done the peasant girls. Even though the girls’ families were afraid to speak out against the nobility, it was a step too far and, like many psychopaths, she mistakenly began to think she was invincible. Following the murder of one young woman, whose death she had tried to make look like suicide, the king finally decided enough was enough.
    The investigating party found bones and human remains, as well as clothing belonging to the missing girls, strewn throughout the castle’s chambers. There were bodies everywhere, their arms and eyes missing. Some had been burned or partially burned and many had been buried in shallow graves around the castle. Dogs ran loose with body-parts in their mouths.
    She failed to attend her trial which began on 2 January 1611. Twenty-one judges sat in judgement, with Judge Theodosius de Szulo of the Royal Supreme Court at their head. Countless witnesses testified, many of whom had suffered at her hands in Castle Csejthe or were members of the families of the missing girls. It was her accomplices, however, who provided the most damning testimony. They were each asked the same eleven questions, amongst them whose murders had they taken part in, who had brought the girls to the castle, what types of torture were used? Ficzko, a dwarf who worked for Erzsébet testified that he was uncertain how many women he helped to kill, but he did know that thirty-seven girls had been murdered. He described how if they did not come willingly, they were beaten unconscious and carried to the castle. Describing the types of torture and beatings, he said, ‘They tied the hands and arms very tightly with Viennese cord, they were beaten to death until the whole body was black as charcoal and their skin was rent and torn. One girl suffered more than two hundred blows before dying. Dorko, (another accomplice and procurer) cut their fingers one by one with shears and then slit the veins with scissors.’ A nurse, Ilona Joo, confessed to taking part in the murder of about fifty girls. She described how she pushed red-hot pokers into victims’ mouths or up their noses. She described how her mistress had placed her fingers in the mouth of one girl and pulled hard until the sides split open. Victims were forced to indulge in deviant sexual practices and one was made to strip flesh off her own arm.
    The Countess and her accomplices were convicted of 80 murders, although King Mathias wrote in a letter that there may have been as many as 300 victims and one estimate puts the number at 650.
    While her accomplices were gruesomely tortured and killed – fingers