I was just reading about Elizabeth Báthory: The Blood Countess, who was another one of the inspirations for Dracula, along with the more well known Vlad the Impaler. She was a noble-woman in the 1600’s who is supposed to have tortured & murdered somewhere near 650 young women. There are also legends which say she bathed in their blood to prolong her life and make herself beautiful.

I found all that on a website owned by Court TV, called Crime Library, which is actually really good, if not sometimes gruesome. I started reading some other accounts in the Truly Weird & Shocking section. Ordinarily, I’m not horribly interested in serial killers and stuff, but got interested all of a sudden after reading that Bathory thing, and then started seeing how similar these murderers are to the really gruesome fairy tales that I am reading in that book right now. Like these people are really acting out - not just symbolically - these intensely dark passages from the human subconscious.

This one about a guy named Issei Sagawa is the only account I read all the way through, and it’s totally sick where they are describing how he ate parts of this woman. Apparently this guy also never stood trial or served any jail time. After only a year of hospitalization, his influential father had him released back into the public. It seems he became something of a celebrity, starring pornos, penning 4 novels, going on talkshows, and all kinds of shit. The Rolling Stones even have a song about him called “Too much blood” which I don’t think I’ve ever heard, although I’m gonna try and download it now. Oh boy, are the lyrics for it ever stupid. It’s from an album called “Undercover” from ‘83 that I’ve never even heard of…

UPDATE!

Holy crap! This is like one of the worst songs I have ever heard in my life! No wonder I’ve never heard anybody even mention it. It’s abysmally bad. It’s songs like this that turn people into serial killers in the first place.