The War in Iraq (2003-2011) Was it really necessary to send 700,000 US soldiers in Iraq?

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1991 Gulf War was necessary - Saddam Hussein, Iraqi baathist dictator who was previously backed by Americans in the war against Iran, invaded Kuwait and committed many horrific atrocities in the region. US President George H.W. Bush and the defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Collin Powell, in collaboration with British Prime Minister John Major, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and French President Francois Mitterand, made up the largest coalition of NATO member states since the Second World War. Kuwait's support, America's strategic ally and one of the oil importers.

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Bush initiated Operation Desert Storm after Saddam refused to withdraw troops despite sanctions. The operation began with 42-day air bombardment, sending 700,000 US soldiers on Iraq. The war was won, Iraq withdrew its troops and entered a long period of economic collapse. What's interesting is that this war was broadcast live on TV, especially on CNN. The victory was gained, the American troops returned home, the Americans were healing Vietnam, but Iraq was left in peace under Saddam's dictator Saddam, Bush knowing that his removal would have led to serious insurgencies. Saddam no longer represented a threat to America's strategic partners in the region, and it was just a parody of caricatures frequently in movies and cartoons like South Park.

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Followed the Second Gulf War in 2003.

After the 9/11 attacks and intervention in Afghanistan, George H.W. Bush, then president, George W. Bush jr, and all the same presidential characters - Colin Powell, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, in collaboration with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, have decided to start a new war in Iraq

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The reason ? Saddam had chemical weapons, collaborated with al-Qaeda terrorists, even participated in the 9/11 plot, and was accused of crimes against humanity and human rights violations. But the most arguable reason was that of chemical weapons as reported by UN inspectors. It's a problem.

Saddam Hussein has indeed used chemical weapons and committed bloody crimes, especially in the war with Iran in 1980-1989. More than 20,000 Iranians were killed by mustard, taboo and irritating gas under Saddam's command. I would say that Saddam deserves the well-deserved punishment. But the problem is that in 2003 he had no chemical weapons at all, as it would later prove.

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And he did not even work with al-Qaida terrorists who were Sunni, or Saddam was not even religious , but a secular and militarist nationalist. He even hated the terrorists and was always starving. He was conducting Iraq with an iron hand, and rarely Islamic fanatics riding on the beck. Even the largest anti-war demonstrations were organized around the globe, and France refused to take part in Bush's military intervention.

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After the end of Bush's ending in asking Saddam to quit power, on March 20, 2003, the US military headquarters headed by Tommy Franks, alongside the UK-based coalition, Poland, Australia, launched the air bombardment with the code name operation Liberation of Iraq. In addition to airborne bombing, land troops and amphibious armored vehicles were brought to the peninsula to secure oilfields with naval support. Targets such as regime removal, chemical weapons search and destruction, capture and annihilation of Iraqi terrorists, and gathering information on global terrorist networks, providing humanitarian aid to Iraqi civilians and securing oil resources and fields, and then democratization.

I remember that night, as a child in the second grade, when I watched my parents on TV and saw the air bombardment of Baghdad's Soc and Terror tactics at night, devastated by fires and shrouded with smoke, explosions in the background, an image that remained behind the twin towers of 9/11. We were all glad when we saw the American tanks crossing under the monument of victory, the demolition of the dictator's statue and the capture of Saddam, found hidden in a ravine like a rat by the end of the year. Everyone believed that when he was hung up he was right. In 2004, Bush held a speech on victory and the end of the war in Iraq, announcing a new era of prosperity and freedom for Iraq. In fact, it would start long agony because the insurgents were beginning to rebel against the American occupation.

So began the War on Insurgency.

After the combat planes, now it seems that it was the turn of the terrestrial troops to begin their work. Coalition forces, especially the US, have sent over 100,000 soldiers to secure Iraq and ensure the transition to democracy and free elections. More than 4,000 young American soldiers would die in the next 8 years. The war that had to end terrorism has only made it even worse. 

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Everyday suicide attempts with tens and hundreds of deaths took place, thousands of coalition soldiers died unexpectedly in ambushes organized by terrorist groups and insurgents with lower military techniques. Presidential Administration and Military Headquarters have proposed new strategies, sent other American troops, other billions for reconstruction and supply, still for nothing! General David Petraeus, who was forced to make many insurgent concessions to save the lives of as many American soldiers, was then sent. And chemical weapons have never been found.

Practically, America has shaken its image again, making Iraq a new Vietnam. Sunni insurgents, al-Qaeda terrorists and Ba athists loyalists steadily bombed American troops, crushing their morale for eight years. 

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The next US Democratic president, Barack Obama, has been deported and withdrew US troops from Iraq.

The Iraqi democratic government led by Nouri al-Maliki was unable to cope with Sunni insurgents allied with al-Qaeda and formed new terrorist groups, such as ISIS. One head (Abu Musab al-Zarqawi) was cut off and another sprang back into place (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi). 

In 2014, ISIS flew Iraqi government troops and conquered northwest Iraq and eastern Syria, forming the Islamic State and proclaiming the Caliphate. Meanwhile, the Kurds have begun claiming their territorial rights. ISIS terrorists turned out to be more outrageous than al-Qaida terrorists because of the brutal executions they even committed through recorded or LIVE broadcasts.

So, on June 13, 2014, America formed a new coalition from most of the European NATO member states, Australia and Canada, and intervened again, with only a few inferior ground forces, and more with military and aviation, starting the anti-ISIS .

War is still ongoing.

Statistics are frightening!

It is estimated that the military intervention started in 2003 led to the death of 600,000-1,2 million people (most Iraqis, hundreds of thousands of them being civilians, either killed by US troops, or killed by insurgents and terrorists) and other millions of injured and mutilated for life.

At Fallujah, those who were fighting against mass destruction weapons, used dirty bombs with radioactive waste, and since then many Iraqi civilians have been affected, but also American soldiers alike, and the new generation of Iraqi children was born with maltformations.

More than 4 million Iraqi refugees are currently estimated, with 200,000 in Europe.

The US intervention and many European states in the Orient have enraged the Muslim world, and so various clandestine terrorists associated with al-Qaeda and ISIS, infiltrated among immigrants and refugees, have been attacked in major capitals of Europe - Paris, Madrid, London, Berlin , Brussels, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Stockholm, resulting in hundreds of deaths in total since 2015.

For US taxpayers, the Iraq war cost over 1 trillion dollars, and damages in Iraq amount to over $ 2-3 trillion. It will hardly rebuild this country in the distant future.

The war does not seem to stop, and it will continue for several decades, at least until Sunni, Shiite, and loyalist insurgents will reach a consensus and Islamic terrorists will be annihilated from the region.

Conclusion - Bush did not do a good job as opposed to tacs.

After all, what was the motivation of this war?

Was this war necessary?

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First Recorded witchcraft Confession and top 10 Salem witchcraft trials "So-called witches were forced to admit confessing to being involved in witchcraft"

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While nowhere near as famous as the Salem witchcraft trials that took place in 1692, the great Connecticut witchcraft panic, which lasted intermittently from 1647 until 1697, set a precedent in American history. Of course, these trials presaged the later series of events in Salem. But the manner in which the trials came to an end opened the door for more rational and logical examinations of supposed supernatural phenomena.


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The First Recorded Confession


In the mid-17th century, a single witness was all it took to get someone tried for witchcraft. Sometimes, all that was needed was one accusation from a prominent member of society. In 1648, Mary Johnson was tortured into confessing that she was involved in witchcraft. Two years earlier, Johnson, a servant, was accused of theft. 

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A local minister named Samuel Stone believed that Johnson was guilty of much more, so he whipped her until she said that she had trafficked with the Devil. In particular, Johnson claimed that she had conspired with the Devil to complete her household chores, sleep with several men, and even kill a child.

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 In December 1648, Johnson was executed for these crimes. While in prison awaiting her trial, Johnson gave birth to a son who was quickly indentured as a servant to Nathaniel Rescew. The boy would remain under Rescew’s tutelage until he turned 21.


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The First To Die

It is widely believed that Mary Johnson was the first accused witch to die in Connecticut (if not America). However, a woman named Alse (Alice) Young is the rightful holder of this ignominious title. On May 26, 1647, Young was hanged at Meeting House Square in Hartford (the site of today’s Old State House) following her brief trial. Little is known about Young.

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It is believed that she was born in England around 1600. Her husband was a man named John Young, who settled in the town of Windsor sometime between 1630 and 1640. It likely that Young was executed for the crime of making herbal folk remedies for her fellow settlers. Alice Young Beamon, Young’s daughter, would later be accused of witchcraft while living in Springfield, Massachusetts.


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The Peculiar Town Of Wethersfield

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During the early 1650s, several individuals were hanged for supposedly practicing witchcraft throughout Connecticut. The convicted included:


John and Joan Carrington (both executed in 1651), 

Goodwife Bassett and Goodwife Knapp (executed in 1651 and 1653, respectively), 

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Lydia Gilbert (executed in 1654), Rebecca and Nathaniel Greensmith,

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Mary Sanford and Mary Barnes (all hanged in 1662).

Although some of these individuals came from places like Hartford, Fairfield, and Windsor, some came from or had connections to the town of Wethersfield. A later “witch,”  Katherine Harrison, was a medical practitioner in Wethersfield. 

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Because of this fact and because Wethersfield was the hometown of Mary Johnson, the term “Wethersfield witches” has been used by historians and amateur scribes alike. Interestingly, the Carringtons and Johnson, all of whom were from Wethersfield, were active members of their community prior to the allegations levied against them.In colonial America, many accused witches were neither fringe members of their community nor easily classifiable as “outcasts” or “misfits.” This was certainly the case in Wethersfield.


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The Great Hartford Panic

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Between 1662 and 1663, the city of Hartford fell under the spell of an intense anti-witchcraft hysteria. Beginning in March 1662

Anne Cole found widespread support from her community when she accused Rebecca Greensmith and Elizabeth Seager of using magic to torment her. 

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When an eight-year-old Elizabeth Kelly died after suffering prolonged stomach pains, her parents accused a woman named Goody Ayres of strangling their daughter through the use of black magic. Many of the stories from Hartford were incredibly bizarre.

 One woman claimed that Satan had caused her to speak with a Dutch accent, while one eyewitness claimed that she saw her neighbors transform into large black hounds during the nighttime. All told, three accused witches were executed.

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The Saga Of Katherine Harrison

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As previously mentioned, Katherine Harrison was a practicing physician in Wethersfield at the time that she was accused of being a witch. Harrison was accused of practicing astrology and using her spectral familiars (including a black dog and a calf’s head) to visit the houses of her neighbors on moonlit nights. Harrison was formally indicted in May 1669. 

Amazingly, despite being accused of witchcraft by approximately 30 witnesses, Harrison was acquitted after a jury could not reach a verdict. She returned to Wethersfield, but several residents signed a petition urging that she be sent back to prison. Finally, in May 1670, Harrison was once again released from prison after the colonial governor and several clergymen challenged the evidentiary standards used in Harrison’s case


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The Importance Of John Winthrop Jr.

John Winthrop, often known as "John Winthrop, Junior" or "the Younger", was the eldest son of John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Mary Forth, his first wife. His father left the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the spring of 1630, and John stayed behind to care for his stepmother, Margaret (Tyndal) Winthrop, and the Winthrop children, as well as his father's businesses. He was governor of the Colony of Connecticut in 1657, and from 1659 to 1676. photo: wikipedia.org

Also known as John Winthrop the Younger, Winthrop was the son of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Prior to becoming the governor of the Connecticut Colony, the younger Winthrop had been educated in England and had traveled extensively in Europe. According to one historian, Winthrop learned alchemy in Europe and practiced folk magic for much of his life. 

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As such, Governor Winthrop knew firsthand how difficult practicing “natural magic” could be. As governor, Winthrop began to question the flimsy evidentiary standards of his colony’s witchcraft trials. In particular, Winthrop grew to question the legitimacy of “spectral evidence,” or eyewitness claims about being “tormented” by spirits or seeing spectral familiars.


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New Standards Emerge

Because of Governor Winthrop’s hesitancy to accept “spectral evidence,” he played a major role in the two acquittals of Katherine Harrison. Indeed, following the conclusion of the Hartford panic in 1663, Winthrop, along with several magistrates and clergymen, established new guidelines for future witchcraft trials.First and foremost, Winthrop clearly defined what constituted diabolism. Winthrop believed that only pacts, or sealed contracts made with the Devil, made someone a witch. 

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Crop failures or sudden deaths did not necessarily mean that witchcraft was afoot. More importantly, Winthrop decreed that for a witchcraft trial to proceed, two people had to see a witch’s specter at the same time. This ruling drastically reduced the number of witchcraft panics for almost three decades.


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Witch Hunting Moves To Massachusetts

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The standards set by Connecticut held for many years. In 1688, however, a new witchcraft panic gripped Boston, the largest and most important city in Puritan America. Following the death of Winthrop in 1676, New England lost the greatest champion of a rational approach to the supernatural.Winthrop was replaced by Increase Mather, a Harvard-trained theologian and the author of “Remarkable Providences.” Mather believed strongly in the existence of witches. 

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Although he accepted many of the dictates established by Winthrop and the Connecticut magistrates, he nevertheless oversaw the execution of Goodwife (“Goody”) Ann Glover. Ann Glover and her daughter worked as housekeepers for the family of John Goodwin. Following a dispute over some missing laundry, the Goodwin children began acting strangely.

A local doctor diagnosed them as being bewitched. Soon enough, Glover, an Irish Catholic who probably only spoke Gaelic, was accused of being a witch. Mather himself deduced that the Goodwin children were bewitched. Glover was hanged in November 1688. She would be the last “witch” to be hanged in Boston.


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The Stamford Panic Of 1692

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During the same year as the Salem witchcraft trials, a servant named Katherine Branch mysteriously fell ill. For weeks, she suffered convulsions and mused wildly about her affliction. At one point, Branch began telling people that a cat often spoke to her about possessing the finer things in life. 

Branch also said that this cat would sometimes transform into a woman. Following a flurry of accusations, two women—Elizabeth Clawson of Stamford and Mercy Disborough of Fairfield—were formally accused. 

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Fortunately, many people were suspicious of Branch’s story. Following a series of experiments (including dunking the accused witches in a Fairfield pond), both Clawson and Disborough were ultimately acquitted.


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The Last In Line

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While Sarah Spencer and an unknown individual named Norton were the last accused witches in the history of Connecticut (they were accused in 1724 and 1768, respectively), Winifred Benham and Winifred Benham Jr. were the last two accused witches of the 17th century. 

Almost five years after the conclusion of the witchcraft panic in Salem, the Benhams of Wallingford (some documents say that they were from New Haven) were tried for making a pact with the Devil to gain the power of transformation. 

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Similarly, both Benhams were accused of using their spirits to inflict bodily harm on their neighbors.Luckily, both Benhams were acquitted. It’s likely that early criticisms of the proceedings in Salem helped to save these two women from the gallows.



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Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory remains, with 650 victims the most prolific serial killer in human history.

The original portrait of the Countess Elizabeth Bathory from 1585 is lost (spirited away in the 1990s). However, this is a fairly contemporary copy of that original, probably painted in the late 16th century. She was 25 when the original portrait the only known image of her was painted. photo: wikipedia.org

Updated again today 28/05/2021

Updated today Monday, November 19, 2018

Did Elizabeth Bathory really torture and murder hundreds of innocent young girls? Or did powerful men fabricate those horrors to seize her wealth?

Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a serial killer from the Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary. She has been labelled by Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer,though the precise number of her victims is debated. Báthory and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of young women between 1585 and 1609.

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The highest number of victims cited during Báthory's trial was 650. However, this number comes from the claim by a serving girl named Susannah that Jakab Szilvássy, Countess Báthory's court official, had seen the figure in one of Báthory's private books. The book was never revealed, and Szilvássy never mentioned it in his testimony. 

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Despite the evidence against Elizabeth, her family's influence kept her from facing trial. She was imprisoned in December 1609 within Csetje Castle, Upper Hungary (now in Slovakia), and held in solitary confinement in a room whose windows were walled up where she remained imprisoned until her death five years later.

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In a period in which torture and violence were practices deeply rooted in people's consciousness and demonic creatures and superstitions were part of life everyday, the woman of noble rank would shock the whole of Europe and to give birth to the darkest fantasies the human mind.

A macabre discovery

During Christmas of 1609, a series of rumors regarding the disappearance of young noble origin who had been seized in the castle Csejtei (Cachtice) on the territory of the former Kingdom of Hungary (now in Slovakia) and forced the king Mathias II century Hungarian soldiers to send a group to investigate the mysterious source suppositions.

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What they discover is so shocking that, witnesses said, could not be rendered in writing.

According to data recorded at the famous trial later joined by the village priest king's soldiers nearby, hidden by the darkness of night, trying patrundurea in massive castle located on a hilltop in order to capture any illegal activity. I find, however, the doors open as if it were invited to enter, while everyone inside was immersed in a total darkness that their torches barely managed to disperse.

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Evidence macabre begin to appear immediately after they enter the hall of the castle, where, on slabs of stone found partially clothed body of a young woman surrounded by several cats. It mentions that this young priest multiple bites and was pale as if they were devoid of blood

Only a few steps away, the soldiers discovered the body of another woman who bites this same steps, but was still alive. And realizing that it had lost a lot of blood and would not have survived to return to the village, they decide to abandon and to continue their research.

A third victim was found tied to a pole, bearing traces of severe torture. It was clear that whatever happens to these young was related to a demonic cult rituals that provide crowned with bloody human sacrifices.

The noises coming from the basement of the castle appeal to soldiers, advancing to light torches, find a real prison full of young women and children ready for these executions ritual. King frees people before the latest discovery, one that was considered too monstrous to be mentioned in the trial.

Few witness accounts speak of a hall sacrifices that had been an orgy during which many young had been tortured, mutilated and killed in the most horrible way possible.


Although some participants had managed to escape the monstrous spectacle that night, soldiers arrested three female employees castle with a young dwarf named Ficzko. Besides these Countess Erzsebet Bathory is restrained and, the castle owner, who, thanks to high rank, is taken over by the army, but is allowed to stay in the castle during research.

Terror trial

The process that took place on January 7, 1611 at Bicse (in Slovakia today) will go down in history as one of the most resounding through the large number of casualties but the atrocities brought to light.

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Theodosious Syrmiensis of Szulo judge of the Royal Court, along with 20 other judges will hear three hundred witnesses, absolutely all testimonials showing one guilty Countess Erzsebet Bathory (Elizabeth Bathory or). Paradoxically, this did not attend his own trial, in a futile attempt to prevent the spread of a scandal in the family Bathory (one of the most powerful noble families in Hungary). 

But revelations was too shocking to be hidden, even in a society that defends frantically aristocracy. Born in 1560 to parents of noble origin (his father, George Bathory, the brother of Andrey Bathory, Prince of Transylvania, while his mother, Anna Bathory, was the daughter of Istvan Bathory, another of Transylvania. All through his mother his niece Elizabeth Stepan Batory, king of Poland) Elizabeth Bathory enjoys an educated, fluent in four languages, so in a time when many nobles did not even know to read or write. It is also recognized as one of the most beautiful women of her era, black hair and white skin became particularly amorous subject of much drama.

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However, although he was part of a noble family, Elizabeth was not able to enjoy a happy childhood. From an early age, apparently suffered from uncontrolled outbursts which some close they considered manifestations of epilepsy. Moreover, many family members Bathory suffered from deviations (Aunt Elizabeth, a lady of the court of King Mathias II had been repudiated for witchcraft and lesbianism, his uncle was recognized as alchemist and worshiper of the devil while his brother, he was accused of killing more children). Moreover, even his childhood nanny, one of those arrested in 1610, was known as witches and black magic practitioner.

At only 11 years is engaged to Ferenc Nadasdy, one of the most cruel commanders in the Hungarian army, famous for its atrocities against the Turks, who had to attract the nickname Cara Beg (The Dark Knight). The marriage takes place four years later, not only will last decade due Nadasdy's murder, most likely in one of his many amorous escapades.

With his death, the Countess deviant behavior becomes apparent. Besides the many relationships they had with men and even with his aunt, its employees confess that Elizabeth Bathory had become obsessed with their beauty, their clothes schimdandu six times per day and spending hours in front of the mirror. It even ordered her a special mirror, fitted with edges that Countess their arms to rest when tired.

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Moreover, witnesses tell of obsession Countess on treatments that would have given life and eternal youth.

It says that while that slapped one of the maids, a few drops of blood had got on Elizabeth skin leaving it feeling its skin and was rejuvenated and became much finer. From here to the massacres that followed was just one step. One by one, all young women from nearby villages was brought to the castle, under the pretext of employment, none of them are ever-nemaintorcandu.

Evidence gathered during the trial clearly demonstrated that Elizabeth used to torture them personally many of the victims, all the time discovering new methods of torture, which more or less macabre. Testimonies of witnesses, the young blood would be used in various cosmetic treatments designed to rejuvenate, while also practicing cannibalism.

Countess is even gather a suite made up of obscure characters, most of the practitioners of black magic and human sacrifice, which they could apply without fear under the guidance thereof. Such treatments were not successful, relatives of Elizabeth I advise using a young noble origin instead of the villages, which will lead to the discovery and Castle Cachtice.Imuni horrors of the complaints of peasants who signaled for over 20 years atrocities countess Hungarian nobles decide to act when Elizabeth Bathory announce the death of more girls coming noble castle or learn good manners. It motivates their death by natural causes or suicide, arguments not convince the aristocrats who ask the king to order the raid in 1609.

Although it is accused of 80 crimes, Elizabeth Bathory is deemed innocent, claiming he is the victim of a inscenari.Cu However, during the trial that reported a personal diary of the Countess would have been about 650 murders thoroughly described. The three maids arrested are sentenced to death and executed by firing immediately after, in advance, their fingers had been twisted with pliers red hot. Given his young age of only 16 years, it is the first dwarf Ficzko decapitated before being thrown into the fire with three collaborators of Countess.

Because of its links blood and relationships-placed, Elizabeth does not receive capital punishment, instead he is imprisoned in his own castle where are built all doors and windows, not left only a few openings for ventilation and a small hole in the wall through it receive food.


Three and a half years later, on 21 August 1614, Countess of Bathory is found dead, lying on the floor after, previously refused to eat.

Death Countess had no gift to appease spirits,  legends woven around it is the source of many horror stories over time. It seems that the very Bram Stoker, author of the famous novel Dracula had her as a model of inspiration when they described the behavior binecuscutului or vampire theory inspired by the fact that there is no evidence according to which Vlad Tepes as drinking the blood of victims.


Over all, Countess Elizabeth Bathory remains, with 650 victims unofficial most prolific serial killer in human history.


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The story of the last witch ( Enriqueta Martí 1913 ) killed at least 40 children and drink their blood. More than that using human fat, blood, hair and bones of victims to make magic potions.

The police could not ever find out her secrets.

The early twentieth century, Barcelona was not just the city where you wanted to live. The number of inhabitants increased enormously compared to earlier periods and most of newcomers found their shelter in El Chino (now El Raval) neighborhood center at that time considered pornography throughout Europe. Sexual slavery, rape and disappearances were common and the most vulnerable victims were children.

Nobody would have imagined then that there is a downright macabre reason for little ones without missing ever be found.

At that time, Enriqueta Martí, a woman comes from a province known for witchcraft in Cataluña, Barcelona becomes apparent. At night, she prostitution and begging during the day, requiring them children they met on the streets to do the same.

Angelita was one of the girls that Spanish police were able to rescue them from the hands Enriqueta Martí (Photo: murderpedia.org)

Enriqueta Martí was born in Sant Feliu de Llobregat in 1868. As a young woman, Enriqueta Martí moved from her hometown to Barcelona where she worked as a maidservant and nanny; she soon turned to prostitution. In 1895 she married a painter named Juan Pujaló, but the marriage failed. According to Pujaló, Martí's affairs with other men, her character, and her continuous visits to houses of ill repute caused the separation. The pair reconciled and separated approximately six times. At the time of Martí's detention in 1912, the couple had been separated for five years, and had not had children.

When she was caught in 1912, the woman testified that selling children for pedophiles, but did not name any of its clients. At that time, Enriqueta said he forced a teenage girl 17 years into prostitution in a brothel Street ,, Sabadell and that helped "many girls to have an abortion. Although never recognized that he killed somebody, newspapers at the time an accused abducted and killed about 40 children in the El Raval district.

Enriqueta has not been judged for crimes they never committed. It was, however, arrested and spent almost 1 year and 3 months in prison. Cops have not found secrets ever since the afternoon of May 12, 1913 was killed by her cell mates. Soon, it was buried secretly in a mass grave in Cementerio del Sudoeste.

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