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After her husband Ferenc Nádasdy's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls, with one witness attributing to them over 650 victims, though the number for which they were convicted was 80. Elizabeth herself was neither tried nor convicted. In 1610, she was imprisoned in the Csejte Castle, now in Slovakia and known as Čachtice, where she remained bricked in a set of rooms until her death four years later.
After her husband Ferenc Nádasdy's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls, with one witness attributing to them over 650 victims, though the number for which they were convicted was 80. Elizabeth herself was neither tried nor convicted. In 1610, she was imprisoned in the Csejte Castle, now in Slovakia and known as Čachtice, where she remained bricked in a set of rooms until her death four years later.


Later writings<span style="font-size:11px;line-height:0px;white-space:nowrap;"> </span>about the case have led to legendary accounts of the Countess bathing in the blood of virgins to retain her youth and subsequently also to comparisons with [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Vlad_Tepes_the_Impaler Vlad Tepes the Impaler], on whom the fictional [http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Dracula Count Dracula] is partly based, and to modern nicknames of ''the Blood Countess'' and ''Countess Dracula''.
Later writings about the case have led to legendary accounts of the Countess bathing in the blood of virgins to retain her youth and subsequently also to comparisons with [[Vlad Tepes the Impaler]], on whom the fictional [http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Dracula Count Dracula] is partly based, and to modern nicknames of ''the Blood Countess'' and ''Countess Dracula''.
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