There are some links here you may like to look at:
http://europeanhistory.about.com/cs/elizabethbathory/

There is one article that gives her some credit and avoids ghoulishness. The legends that surround both her and Dracula seem to be bathed in blood, and all sorts of atrocities.

It makes me think of the witch hunts. Some of the women were innocent after all. Only perhaps were different that the rest of the society. Perhaps were more learned. And the accusations and stroies, full of injust remarks and suspicious details didn;lt give them due credit, I"m sure.

I"m bound to think about Bathory in a similar way. And even if she did have some misdeeds on her account, dhe was a sumna after all.

So, if she was innicent and perfectly normal, why all the gory legends? What is it that people have with such stories?