#2192 - Raanan Hershberg

9810.933 - 9838.811 Joe Rogan

The legend appeared in print for the first time in 1729 in the Jesuit scholar Laszlo Turoksi, maybe? Tragica Historia was written, the first account of the Bathory case. The story came into question in 1817 when the witness accounts, which had surfaced in 1765, were published for the first time. They included no references to blood baths in his book, Hungary and Transylvania, published in 1850.