The tortures Elizabeth Bathory inflicted upon women included:
- beating the servant girls with a heavy cudgel
- stucking pins into the upper and lower lips of the girls, into other parts of their flesh, and under their fingernails
- having the women stripped naked and forcing them to perform their household duties in full view of men
- forcing the servants to go on fasts with nothing to eat or drink for days
- having cold water poured over naked girls, while they were outside in the cold and snow, until they froze to death
- having girls submerged in a frozen river in winter
- having iron keys and coins heated red-hot and forcing girls to hold them
- having naked girls smeared with honey and then forcing them to stand outside for twenty-four hours and endure bites from insects
- placing paper between the girls’ toes and setting it on fire (called “star kicking”)
- putting her fingers into one girl’s mouth and pulling until it split at the corners
- setting pubic hair on fire
- thrusting the hot iron into the face of the servant if a collar was not properly pressed
- scorching girls with fiery swords or tongs
- pouring scalding water on servant girls
- biting and ripping out the flesh of the servant girls
