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| Joretta Thomas |
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Joretta Thomas
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Elizabeth Bathory
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| Anna Jagiellon, Grand Duchess of Lithuania |
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About Joretta
Joretta has been participating in Renaissance Faires for over 13 years. She was a founding member of one of the most notorious pirate guildes on the Central California Faire circuit; and was a member of the Queen's Court for 7 years. She has attended many Renaissance-themed workshops over the years...and has even taught a few! Joretta has an apparently never-ending thirst for knowledge of the Elizabethan era.
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About Elizabeth Bathory
Countess Erzsébet Báthory (Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian, Alžbeta Bátoriová(-Nádasdy) in Slovak, Elżbieta Batory in Polish, 7 August (?), 1560 – 21 August, 1614), was a Hungarian countess from the renowned Báthory family. She is considered the most infamous serial killer in Hungarian and Slovak history and is remembered as the Bloody Lady of Čachtice (Csejte), after the castle near Trenčín (Trencsén), in Royal Hungary, in present-day Slovakia, where she spent most of her life.
After her husband's death, she and her four alleged collaborators were accused of torturing and killing dozens of girls and young women. In 1610, she was imprisoned in Čachtice Castle, where she remained until her death four years later. Her nobility allowed her to avoid trial and execution. The Báthory case has inspired many stories, featuring the countess bathing in the blood of her victims in order to retain her youth. This inspired nicknames like the Blood Countess and Countess Dracula.
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