BATH`ORI, 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.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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