Tales from Wonderland: The Red Rose

This is the story of Elizabeth Bathory who was a real woman, although what happens to her in this story is fictional, of course. In reality, she was a psycho. Pure and simple. She believed that she would never age as long as she kept taking baths.

In the blood of young women.

So she arranged for women to be lured to her place on some pretext, had them killed, drained, and then bathed in their blood. Sometimes she's lumped in with vampires, but she was not a vampire; she was just plain nuts.

She ended up being bricked up into a set of rooms for her crimes and died four years later.

In the story version she makes a deal with Baba Yaga to go to Wonderland where the caterpillar 'interviews' her and then changes her into his servant. She becomes the Red Rose and is quite happy to be his slave.


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