Elizabeth Bathory also known as the bloody countess was considered one of the first vampires. She belonged to the ritchest and most powerful families in all hungary. She brought young virgins girls by lying to them, saying that she was going to teach them good manners but instead she kept them in her castle hostage, tortured them , and killed them. She thought that by bathing and drinking in young virgins blood would keep her keep her youth. She tortured them in very horrible ways and did not care at all of the pain they were going through.
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I do believe that Bram stroker was inspired by Elizabeth Bathory. She brought in young girls by lying to them that they were going to be thought good manners but she was actually going to kill them. In the book Dracula Jonathan goes to his castle thinking that he is just going to sell a home but Dracula ends up keeping him hostage for a month. Jonathan says "The castle is a veritable prison, and i am a prisoner!" pg 27 .
Vampires circa 1897 were known to be ugly and very scary looking and people who lived around them seemed to know or suspect they were vampires. They were also most of the time alone and they only came out in the night you never saw them during the day. Vampires today are described as very beautiful and they go out both during the night and day and dont sleep. There is usually more than one vampire and people dont suspect at all that they are vampires.
Do you think vampires have any emotions while killing people like regret?
If the vampire had the choice to be a normal human or stay a vampire which one do you think they would have gone for?
