46 - Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory: Most Prolific Female Serial Killer Ever?

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

16th century Hungary was a place and time of unimaginable violence. Europe had been at war with itself and the Ottoman Turks for centuries. Hungary was located between the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans, and when those two empires weren't battling each other on Hungarian soil, Hungary was battling itself. And after Hungarian nobles had squashed a recent peasant uprising, the Hungarian peasant class had become virtual slaves with zero rights, people the noble class could exploit however they wanted to. And since peasants were being constantly murdered anyway, what difference did 650 more disappearances, the number of victims Bathory is rumored to have killed, make? How did one woman stand out for excessive butchery in an age when butchery was the norm? Find out in another full-evil, medieval edition of Timesuck! This episode of Timesuck is brought to you by the fantastic Dollar Shave Club! Go to www.dollarshaveclub.com/timesuck today and get their badass Executive razor handle, four stainless steel, six blade cartridges and a tube of Dr. Carver's Shave Butter sent to your door for only 5 bucks! Best razor you'll ever use Timesuckers! Head to the Hollywood Improv, October 5th, 7:30PM for the first ever live recording of Timesuck! Part of the LA Podcast Festival. Tickets only $15. Click here for tix/more details.

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0:00.0	Hungary's blood countess, Elizabeth Bathory, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most prolific serial killer of all time.
0:08.0	But did she really do it?
0:09.0	And what's her behavior really that out of the ordinary for the insanely bloody time in which she lived.
0:14.4	We dig into the blood, the gore, treachery, turmoil, the oppression, the constant warfare that defined
0:21.6	16th century hungry.
0:23.0	We examine the myths and possible facts of a woman who may have been one of the most sadistic monsters of all time.
0:29.0	Get ready to get dirty.
0:31.0	Get ready to get down with another medieval edition of Timesuck.
0:35.4	You're listening to Timesuck. Mary Monday everybody,
0:45.0	everybody, Hale Nimrod, the sucketh
0:49.0	returneth.
0:50.0	I'm Dan Cummins, and this is that mix of trivia and fun. That cult of the curious, known as time suck.
0:56.7	Another bunch of great iTunes reviews this past week you guys,
0:59.5	thanks for taking the time to do that so other people can read them and be convinced to start sucking themselves.
1:04.5	A lot of you will have asked like why iTunes only because that's where most people listen.
1:08.2	I have no Apple loyalty. That's just where the suck can spreadeth the mosteth.
1:14.0	iTunes reviewer, a smoothie sucker, left a review titled Tase A Dong
1:19.0	that said, I just listened to your episode of North Korea and couldn't stop laughing every time you said
1:23.5	Taste some Dong. Was that intentional? Anyway, keep doing what you do, Master Mother
1:28.9	Sucker. No, smoothie Sucker, it was not intentional. I was giving my best attempt at doing a North Korean name some justice and I clearly failed
1:38.0	I meant to say Tasek dong or Tasek d'ase dong, not Taseum dong, which would be a very unfortunate proper pronunciation
1:46.6	of one's name.
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