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The vampire Paradise ...
Western Europe is the more civilized part of Europe. The people that live there, are the children of the industrial age. Most of them only believe in what they see with their own eyes. They refuse to open themselves to the invisible threat. That is why I like West Europe so much. Every vampire would love West Europe too. It is so easy to hunt there. The last thing that the West European expects is to be attacked by a Dark Angel(vampire). If a body with two puncture marks in the neck were found, the inspectors would claim that a mad dog or something had attacked the human. They would never guess that it was a vampire that had done it. Their own skepticism for mystics makes them easy victims for the Children of Darkness.
The stereotypical West European vampire is - a way too feminine, bisexual, aristocrat with pompous manners and dressed in Edwardian/Victorian style clothes. Actually, not even half of the West European vampires are like that. Most of them do not live in ancient castles in the countryside, no; it is too dangerous for them. The policemen may be narrow-minded and may know nothing of the supernatural but certainly they would become suspicious if a man from the small countryside village disappeared every night. Most West European vampires live in the big metropolitan cities where crimes often happen. They may stay unnoticed in the international crowds walking down the streets. Unlike the East European vampires most West European vampires simply enjoy their existence, they do not know what are they, why they exist or who was the first one - their creator.
The most famous West European vampire is the Hungarian Countess - Elizabeth Bathory ...
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The Blood Countess
She is known as Elizabeth Bathory, but her real name is Erzebet Bathory. She was born on August 7th, 1560. She lived in the castle Cachtice, within miles of where now, Slovakia, Austria and Hungary meet. She is not as famous as our beloved Count Vladislaus but was not less bloodthirsty. She was one of the most beautiful and most ruthless women in all of Europe. Her tortures seemed inhuman even in such a cruel age, where everyone was a potential witch or a dark mage. It is known from her secret journal that her victims outnumbered 650 and 90 percent of them were young innocent girls. At the age of 15 she married Count Ferenc Nadasdy who was a war hero. It was in his castle that she practiced her cruel deeds. Erzebet had a terrible fear of aging. Her dream was to have everlasting life and beauty. One day she slapped a servant girl for brushing her hair too hard. She slapped her so hard that the girl's lip split and blood fell onto Erzebet's hand. She cleaned it away with her handkerchief in disgust but then she noticed that the skin below the blood had regained the elasticity and smoothiness it had had in her youth. She thought the blood would keep her young and beautiful forever and from that day on, she took a bath in a tub full of blood every night. In April of 1602, she went hunting with some of her accomplices - Ficzko, Jan, Katharina, Helena Jo and Dorka. A beautiful deer suddenly appeared in their way. Ficzko took a shot at it but he missed. The deer started running. Erzebet commanded that she wanted the deer at any price so they started chasing it. They rode and rode and rode, until ... the deer ran out of sight and they lost it. Helena Jo was the first one to realize that they were lost. Erzebet's posssessed so much land and woods, that she realized she had never been to this part of her lands before. It was getting dark, and they decided to camp there until morning. The Countess sent Jan to search for help while they make a fire. A few hours later the darkness was complete and beautiful, the perfect darkness. They heard a sound. It was the breathing of a beast of some sort and they readied their muskets. When the noise stopped, Erzebet had gone. Vanished ! No one had heard her steps; no one had seen her moving. One moment she was next to them and in the next she was gone. The mysterious noise had disappeared too. They became worried, what would they say to her husband ? They immediately started searching the woods for her but found nothing. There was no sign of her presence. They returned to Cachtice in the morning and discovered Jan had also disappeared. No one had seen him and he never returned. They told the servants in the castle what had happened. They were frightened; not because they loved the cruel Erzebet, but because they knew that Count Ferenc would have them all punished, tortured, and probably executed. But, when the sun went down, she appeared before the castle gates ! She looked different, and from that evening, she became even more bloodthirsty and when I say "bloodthirsty" I mean it literally. She did not only bathe in her victims' blood but she even drank from it. Perhaps, it was a vampire that kidnapped her; perhaps he made her one too. From that evening, she was never seen in daylight, and went out only after the sun went down.
In 1609 her downfall finally came when she made the mistake of including some girls of noble birth amongst her victims. After two trials in 1611 at which she was not allowed to attend(both trials being held in the afternoon when the sun was high in the sky), the Countess was sentenced to imprisonment in her castle. Three of her apprentices - Helena Jo, Dorka and Ficzko were tortured and executed. Katharina was the only one who survived. Her fellows exonerated her . On August 21, 1614, Erzebet was found dead in her room in the castle. It was a guard who had never seen her that found her. He had wanted to see the Countess, reputedly, the most beautiful woman in Europe. The legend goes that every night a victim was brought to the vampire Countess by her servants, but one night they decided that she no longer had any power over them and they let her starve to death. |
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What can destroy the West European vampire ?
1. Sunlight ~
The sunlight can turn into ashes any vampire but if the ashes are not scattered, the vampire will return in a horrible form.
2. Fire ~
Fire can destroy any vampire. Again, the ashes have to be scattered.
3. Decapitation ~
If the body parts of the vampire are not brought together, he would never be able to regenerate himself. |
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