Speeches / Elizabeth Băthory (speech) about an infamous person. [3]

Prepare a well researched speech about A famous/ infamous or historic person.

Your speech must be factual but also present your opinions and feelings on the matter.

A blood crazy woman,known for her revolting horiffying acts of brutality of killing and torturing young women during her reign as the countess from a family of nobility in the kingdom of Hungary. Born 1560 on the 8th of the 8th month.

Elizabeth was labelled the most prolific female serial killer, whose achievements include; killing young women by having them beaten,pierced, froze to death and draining of blood and torturing them by having them stripped naked on cold winter mornings and having cold water poured on them. It was rumoured she may have eaten up some of her servants. She may also have burnt faces of her servants with hot irons when they failed to work up to her expectations. In th blood drained from these young women she would bathe, as she believed it made her skin softer and all the while making her younger.

The number of murders on her conscience are still debated but most sources reveal not more than 650 deaths in the period of her reign. Verification of her executions of brutality were by more than 300 witnesses and survivors, as well as physical evidence and the presence of corpses of girls terribly mutilated and some were still dying.

Despite the evidence against her, th countess was never put to trial because of her family's influence, instead she was put under house arrest. You know what they say money makes the world go round. Four years posterior to her arrest she died in one of the rooms in her house.

Now your are probably wondering why i chose ropa speak about someone so abject, beastly and detestable. Maybe I'm trying to prove not just men are capable of the despicable. Or show that the world is more debilitating than we think. Another version of king Solomon's saying, that says; "show me a man who does despicable things and i will show you a woman who is better than most and would dine with demons. Now who said a woman cannot make a difference in the world? If you ask me, she could have been the devil himself.