Waiting 4 Wrath - Episode 258 - The One Where We Discover The Pie Is A Lie!

In This Week’s Show, episode 258, we learn about the blood countesses and where she put that flute that one time at summer plague…

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Beef hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying Steve’s patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that explaining to a child that we’re mortal and that death is inescapable is probably, for me, the hardest part about being a party clown.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that terrible human masquerading as a person worth respecting, Mother Teresa also had an exorcism performed on her? It was at the request of Archbishop of Calcutta, Henry D’Souza, who had noticed that Mother Teresa was increasingly agitated in her sleep.

I’m hoping it was night terrors caused by guilt of withholding care from those in need.

But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!

This Week’s Beer

Cannoneer - Pegasus City Brewery

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/51047/313204/

* Untappd: 3.67/5

* Style: Bold Amber

* ABV: 7.4%

* Aaron: 4

* Jenn: 4

* Mom: 0

* Shea: 3

* Steve: 4

This Week’s Show

Round Table

Thanks for having lunch with us Marie! And for the beers of course ;)

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Best of all, we don’t even charge you for the 4 More Beers!

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The Blood Countess - available now at http://patreon.com/w4w

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory

* https://historycollection.co/real-countess-dracula-12-facts-life-crimes-elizabeth-bathory/4/

Elizabeth Bathory been described as the most vicious female serial killer in all recorded history. Where fact ends and fiction begins in her horrible story is now impossible to determine, but in her fame as a legendary vampire she is out rivalled only by Count Dracula.

Bathory was born in Transylvania in 1560 to a distinguished family that included kings, cardinals, knights, and judges. Though she counted many luminaries among her relatives, her family tree also featured some seriously disturbed kin. One of her uncles instructed her in Satanism, while her aunt taught her all about sadomasochism. At the age of 15, Bathory was married to Count Ferenc Nádasdy, and the couple settled into Csejthe Castle in modern day Slovakia. In 1578, Nádasdy became chief commander of the Hungarian army and embarked on a military campaign against the Ottoman Empire, leaving his wife in charge of his vast estates and the governing of the local populace.

What was a wealthy socialite of the time to do? Rumors that Bathory tortured her servants began to spread. Bathory’s torture included jamming pins and needles under the fingernails of her servant girls, and tying them down, smearing them with honey, and leaving them to be attacked by bees and ants. Although the count participated in his wife’s cruelties, he may have also restrained her impulses; when he died in the early 1600s, she became much worse. It is also believed that to please his wife, her husband built a torture chamber to her specifications.

With the help of her former nurse, Ilona Joo, and local witch Dorotta Szentes, Bathory began abducting peasant girls to torture and kill.