First up, it's good to know the editing function finally works here too. Second, this is a good simile of a story from the '50s, meant to entertain, with little effort spent on character and world setup, on par for a "Fantastic Tales of Monsters" type of story.
Elisabeth Bathory really was famously accused of bathing in young virgin blood to stay eternally young (but it was most likely to discredit her with the Porta and the Habsburg Court). Suleiman the Magnificent's wife was a Ruthenian peasant girl roughly from the same region where Vlad was the leader, so Nieva could have just as well been captured, enslaved, gifted to the Barbary Pirates, liberated by the British fleet, captured in Spain again (the colonies still could own slaves), sent to Cuba, escaped to Mexico, where she could have married a count of Habsburg birth, and returned to Transylvania that way, if it's more rooted in reality, then again this Transylvania has nothing in common with the real thing![]()




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