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As a child, Báthory had multiple seizures that may have been caused by epilepsy. At the time, symptoms relating to epilepsy were diagnosed as falling sickness, and treatments included rubbing the blood of a non-sufferer on the lips of an epileptic or giving the epileptic a mix of the non-sufferers blood and a piece of the skull as their episode ended. A proposal made by some sources in order to explain Báthory's cruelty later in her life is that she was trained by her family to be cruel. Báthory was raised a Calvinist Protestant. As a young woman, she learned Latin, German, Hungarian, and Greek. Born into a privileged family of nobility, Báthory was endowed with wealth, education, and a prominent social rank
Elizabeth Báthory Killed 600 Young Maidens
As a child, Báthory had multiple seizures that may have been caused by epilepsy. At the time, symptoms relating to epilepsy were diagnosed as falling sickness, and treatments included rubbing the blood of a non-sufferer on the lips of an epileptic or giving the epileptic a mix of the non-sufferers blood and a piece of the skull as their episode ended. A proposal made by some sources in order to explain Báthory's cruelty later in her life is that she was trained by her family to be cruel. Báthory was raised a Calvinist Protestant. As a young woman, she learned Latin, German, Hungarian, and Greek. Born into a privileged family of nobility, Báthory was endowed with wealth, education, and a prominent social rank