Cult of the Iron Cobra

We usually think of serial killers as being male. We generally think of vampires, or at least the lead vampire in a movie, also as males. Not so here.

Born in 1560 into an immensely wealthy Hungarian royal family, the Countess Elizabeth Bathory was apparently a bit deranged, as well as being a known lesbian. It did not matter so much that she was lesbian; it did matter that she was deranged. A birth product of a long line of sometimes incestuous couplings, she was likely a bit off when she was born. Incest, common among European and Egyptian royal families, produced historical well-knowns such as the bloodthirsty Caligula. Not all, but most of Caligula's victims were killed by him indirectly, through orders that his soldiers carried out.

The Countess Bathory reserved the pleasure of killing her victims by her own hand. Her own knife. Her own teeth. Bathing in the blood of young virgin women and girls she thought would preserve her skin's smoothness and keep her looking young and beautiful. And beautiful she was. Beautiful enough to be a vampire queen. Historians have not given much credence to her drinking that same blood. Yet there is a known disease called Renfield Syndrome (named for the slave of Dracula) that makes those who are afflicted crave human blood. Crave it to drink it. Why? That is explained elsewhere.

Elizabeth Bathory, I maintain, needed to drink human blood, did not just crave it, but needed it in order to stay alive. Why she needed to is also explained elsewhere. And she needed a lot of it. The most prolific female serial killer in the known history of our earth, the Countess Bathory tortured, killed, bathed in the blood of, and drank the blood of many young virgin Hungarian peasant women and girls in her vast territory. Many of them.  Most historians say it was approximately - 650.

Countess Bathory was not sterile; she did bear children. After her menopause, she did bear others, but they were not children. They were the young women who she wanted to keep alive, so she could have her sexual way with them. But God's infusion of the two major instincts in every animal and every plant, the instincts of survival and procreation, were very much alive in the Countess. And when her eyes shone with lust for her female servants, her incisors shone with a drop of venom that was squeezed out, just as with a cobra that is about to attack. When Elizabeth bit her desirable young victims, she did so less violently than with those that she killed. Preserved in her was the instinct to propagate the species, and also the instinct to survive. Survival was out of the question without human blood.

In her excited state, the incisors became fangs - (every animal on earth undergoes a physical transformation when it is about to mate, with certain organs responding to the procreation instinct). The fangs dug into the jugular vein, the carotid artery, or her favorite, the inside right thigh femoral artery. The violent act was actually one of creation, not destruction. In one sucking bite, the Countess Elizabeth Bathory fulfilled both of Nature's two basic instincts; she preserved her own life with the blood of others, and she created another one of her own kind, by injecting her inbred, mutated blood into her lovers/victims. Another one, and another one, and another one....Jolan was her favorite...and many other ones. Elizabeth passed on her mutated blood with its mutated cell division.

Passed it on to those who would become her willing followers. Those who now needed the feeding themselves. And if fed well, could live virtually forever, like cast iron. Cult of the Iron Cobra they became. Elizabeth, their leader. Countess Elizabeth Bathory, the first vampire.


copyright December, 2011 by Ron Stillman