Talk:Carmilla/@comment-202.156.8.11-20120813005816/@comment-24442375-20140210173511

@ClickWhirr Actually no, it's not confirmed but merely a story/account/allegation written after her death that turned into a popular myth/legend due to the controversy surrounding the case. Everyone pretty much just believes it now even tho there isn't any evidence pointing that out except for her serial murders, what with forensics being virtually non-existent at the time.

"In 1817, the witness accounts (which had surfaced in 1765) were published for the first time, which included no references to bloodbaths"

" The legend nonetheless persisted in the popular imagination. This myth is speculated to persist in part because of Báthory's connection to Transylvania and vampire lore"