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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Janice Shell who wrote (5415)12/20/1997 1:16:00 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
What does it mean that I keep finding wonderful gifts for all of you and have no clue what to get my own family and 3D friends?
I've put the absolutely perfect book under the tree with your name on it. I bought it a few months ago and it reminds me so much of you. It's Uppity Women of Medieval Times by Vicki Leon.
An excerpt:

Could it be something in that Carpathian mountain water? Those lonely peaks (now part of Romania) were home to Vlad the Impaler, the fearsome figure upon which Count Dracula was based. But Vlad was bush league when it came to Transylvanian Terror. Minutes away as the bat flies, a Hungarian sadist named Erszebet Bathory gave new meaning to the word bloodthirsty. Countess Erszebet had a yen to stay young--and thought daily baths in the blood of young girls would do the trick. There being any number of powerless females living in and around her castle, she murdered 610 of them and soaked in their corpuscles for years before anyone caught on. Despite their sluggish detective powers, locals were finally able to bring the countess to justice; Erszebet had kept a meticulous diary of her sanguinary health regime, which formed the main evidence at her trial in 1611. After a no-surprise "guilty" verdict, the woman who out-Draculaed Dracula on his own turf was walled up in her own castle, where she died (but do we know this for sure?)three years later.

Now is that a woman after the Coven's collective black heart or what? I, for one, have been greatly inspired by these little vignettes and am sure you will identify with many of these literal femmes fatales.
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