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Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Elizabeth: I. Mirror Mirror (page 1/1) ------ performed by Kamelot Amazing | Reviewer: Josh | 8/1/2008 For those that don't know, all three of Kamelot's "Elizabeth" songs are based on the legend of Elizabeth Bathory -- for a detailed look at the entire legend, a great and horrifying story about it is 'The Blood Countess' by Andrei Codrescu. The legend says she murdered virgin females to bathe in their blood, believing it retained her youth. All collaborator names used in the above book are actual name, but this part of the legend *is not true*. In her time, the legend was needed as it was thought women couldn't commit violence for its own sake, so they made it up that Bathory did it for vanity. However, records from trials of her collaborators show that her torture and murder of victims was purely for the sadistic pleasure of it. Collaborators were burnt alive, one was beheaded beforehand, one was acquitted due to being forced to participate. Bathory herself was never on trial nor executed as she was a well-known political figure and it would have been unwise. She was sentenced to house arrest in a single room of one of her many castles until death. She was convicted of 80 murders, though many people reported different numbers, with as many as 612 being attributed to her by some, making her the single greatest serial killer in all of history. The actual number of victims is unknown. Add Your New Review About The Song