Dracula In 1983, McNally additionally suggested that Stoker was influenced by the history of Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who allegedly tortured and killed between 36 and 700 young women. It was later a commonly believed rumor that she committed these crimes to bathe in their blood, believing that this preserved her youth. Báthory's castle was also located in the Carpathian Mountains, just as Dracula's, albeit in a different region. In her book "The Essential Dracula", Clare Haword-Maden suggested that the castle of Count Dracula was inspired by Slains Castle, at which Bram Stoker was a guest of the 19th Earl of
Thomas Bathe release. Far more serious charges (some of which were certainly false) were levelled against Bathe in 1449, and these were the main grounds for the indictment against him in the Parliament of 1460. He was accused of a serious assault on Dr. John Stackpole, a priest attached to Bective Abbey. It seems that Stackpole had been installed as the parish priest of Kilberry, a living which Bathe claimed was his to dispose of. The dispute between the two men led Stackpole to ask the Bishop of Meath for Bathe's excommunication: in revenge Bathe kidnapped and imprisoned him. However the most