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Posted by Rebecca A Emrich on December 09, 2008

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Elizabeth Bathory and Her Family

Hey everyone. I hope all of you are enjoying the holidays. Something that I really think about during this time of year is family. Everyone has a family that they care about, even if others don’t agree with how someone shows how they care for their family. Elizabeth Bathory may have been a serial killer, but she was also a woman with a family. She was married to Count Ferenc Nadasdy of Hungary, and she had 7 children with him. They had 4 sons and 3 daughters. Elizabeth also had a daughter outside of wedlock just before she married Ferenc. The family may not have been the most typical of families, but they were a family nonetheless. Elizabeth was only 12 years old when she was engaged to Ferenc. When she was 13 or 14, Elizabeth was reported to have had an affair with one of the servants at her family home. The result of this affair was Elizabeth’s first child, Anastasia Bathory. Needless to say, Count Ferenc was not happy about this news. He had the servant castrated

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The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

Hey everyone. The other night I was searching through my Netflix and came across the movie The Boy Who Cried Werewolf. I figured it might be an interesting movie, so I put it on. It is a movie for children and, as expected, it was more funny than scary. Sure, there were some semi-scary parts but not that many. The movie was released by Nickelodeon, the main character is played by Victoria Justice. The plot was your basic supernatural movie for children/teens: There were your traditional clichés, and there was the creepy castle in Romania. They set the movie in a town called Wolfsburg. I've since learned that this is the name of an actual town, but it is not in Romania; it is in Germany. I am not sure that they were really going for accuracy, but with that being the case, I think they should have made up a city name that did not already exist. I think they were aiming to have the small town of Wolfsburg be just outside of Transylvania. There was mention of visiting Dracula

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