Who Are The Most Evil Women In History?

[Khephra]

Excluding Barbara Bush, Ann Coulter, Lynne Cheney, & Nancy Reagan.

I'll have to go with Erzsebet Bathory.

[kixot]

1. Unfortunately history is lacking in woman villains.

Can't think of even one right now, other than Babs Bush and Annthrax Coulter.

[HEyHEY]

2. What are you kidding me?

Mary Antoinette, Isabelle of Spain, My Mother, Helen of Troy, That chick Hitler was sleeping with, Leona Helmsley..... there are plenty.

[jobycom]

9. Helen of Troy? She was kidnapped! Marie A was just out of touch

not really evil.

[HEyHEY]

13. Hey being kidnapped doesn't make Helen less evil

And MAry A...would you call cuttin' of a bunch of people's heads "Out of touch" I call it evil....EVIL! BWAHAHAHA!

[jobycom]

21. Sure, blame the victim. Patty Hearst will hear about this!

And everyone was cutting off people's heads in France in those days.

[HEyHEY]

22. It WAS all the rage I agree ...but fashion statements can be evil

Remember the 80s?

[jobycom]

27. Ughh! You win!!

:-) Even as a non-sequiter, that's unbearable!

[MisterP]

40. fuchsia tights, loose striped socks,

time to Jazzercize! and (what was the other one)

[MisterP]

44. ah, yes

FLASHDANCE

[fudge stripe cookays]

49. Marie was not the one cutting the heads off....

The peasants who ended up taking over did.

And Marie ended up there too, if you recall.

She was just naive and stupid, and had no idea how people were starving while she lived in obscene wealth.

There's a difference between naivete and downright evil. Ann Coulter is downright evil.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

43. Hitler's mom!

for NOT getting an abortion like she was GOING TO.

[theivoryqueen]

3. there is always Joan Crawford! kidding - politically...

I am still upset with: KayBailey, Phyllis Schlafly (sp?) and any of the stepfords who oppose equal rights.

[Seth Gecko]

4. Ayn Rand

tops them all.

[theivoryqueen]

8. and she dated alan greenspan in college!

hmmmm....

[Dying Eagle]

5. My Wife

Trust ME!!!!!!

[Snoggera]

Depends on who you ask

and what their knowledge base is.

Let's see.

Pat Nixon knew her husband was a psychotic fuck for many years, but let it go "for the children."

If Dan Quayle had kids, I pity them all.

Evil women.

I'll have to listen to some ELO and get back to you!

[Fenris]

6. Lucrezia Borgia

http://www.dragonrest.net/histories/lucrezia.html

[devilgrrl]

28. Lucrezia Borgia was a victim of the medieval whore media

According to Ferdinand Gregorovius, Lucrezia Borgia was "the unluckiest woman in history" and many factors certainly support the idea that a lot of tragedy befell her life, even more unlucky in the fact that it was so often at the hands of her family. Despite claims of a close relationship with her father Rodrigo, who became Pope Alexander IV, and her brothers Juan and Cesare, Lucrezia was little more than a pawn in the power game of Italy during this period; a commodity which her father, and later her brother Cesare, used to strengthen Borgia alliances with other powerful families and states.

<snip>

Gregorovius' description of Lucrezia as "the unluckiest woman in history" is very valid because of all that Lucrezia suffered in terms of personal loss. Against the single-minded power quest of the Borgia men Lucrezia was no opposition, nor did she attempt to be. She submitted to their orders without question and was successfully used to secure many temporarily necessary alliances with other great powers in Italy and the surrounding countries. Her life was an unhappy one, due largely to the fact that her personal contentment was put aside in place of Borgia politics, and the greatest unluckiness lay in the fact that those responsible for her misery were most often her own family.

more> http://www.dicksonc.act.edu.au/Showcase/ClioContents/Clio4/lucrezia.html

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. Lizzy Borden...

Hitler's mother should be up there too.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

52. I don't think she was really evil...

I think she was either schizophrenic or had serious mental problems due to abuse. If they'd had decent drugs and/or therapy then, she wouldn't have lost control.

[ugarte]

10. I know you're dying for someone to ask

so I'll bite: who is Erzebet Bathory?

[Fenris]

12. ...

http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Veranda/7128/

[ugarte]

18. Ugh, thanks for the link...

She's even worse than Dr. Laura.

[Khephra]

16. Vampire fans know her well

Erzebet Bathori is a Hungarian Countess who thought that bathing in the blood of young virgins would stop the aging process! It is said that she murdered around 650 people but it is more likely that it was around 50 (Says Ingrid Pitt - author of the bedside companion for vampire lovers - based on the fact that their can't of been many virgins living in one remote village at the time!)

She was born in Bratislava (in the Slovak republic at the time) in 1560 and was abused a lot as a child which could be to blame for her bloody appetite!!! she was well educated and spent most of her life in a castle. she married Count Nadasdy in 1574 but was very bored, she also spent a lot of time devising tortures for her lazy staff like standing out in the courtyard of one of her castles when it was below zero or sitting them on the fire.

It was Bathoris midwife 'Ana Darvulia' who gave her the idea of bathing in the blood of virgins! She knew what the Countess wanted.

One of the worse things the Countess did for entertainment was to use something Darvulia devised which was an iron maiden with the spikes on the inside but with room in the middle to hang (they thought spikes killed with too little pain!), the cage was then hung in the air above Countess Bathoris chair (with the victim inside) and her staff would put burning torches under the victim - to escape the burning flames the victim would dodge them, and by doing so would slash herself on the spikes causing blood to fall down onto Bathoris body

She was sentenced to life imprisonment when she was found out and in around 1611, and tried for killing 650 woman and children, her accomplices were all executed and burned alive, She lived for a further 3 years either in a bricked up wall fed through a small hole, or in luxury in one of her castles!! (Could be one or the other!)

http://homepages.tesco.net/~jim.harris/Bathory.htm

[ForrestGump]

30. Yes, you're right -- that is fairly antisocial behavior

Definitely not cricket.

[LincolnMcGrath]

11. Yo Mama!

[Fenris]

14. Myra Hindley

http://freespace.virgin.net/greg.taylor1/moors.html

[GoddessOfGuinness]

54. That's pretty damned evil...

Ugh.

[ronnykmarshall]

15. Diana Ross

Just kiddin' ....... sort of.

[Insider]

47. reach out and touch

somebody's man...

[Maddy McCall]

17. Ilsa Koch...the Nazi woman who had Jews killed so that she could...

make lampshades and book covers from their skin.

Evil beyond evil.

[Maddy McCall]

24. Photo and more about "The Bitch of Buchenwald"

The bottom photo shows items in Koch's possession, including scrapbook covers and handgloves made of human skin. She especially liked tattooed skin, and had Jews with tattoos paraded in front of her in the nude so that she could chose the ones with the best artwork.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

55. She's got a special room

in hell.

[jobycom]

19. Salame, Nero's mom, Andrea Yates (evil or insane?)

[LowerManhattanite]

20. I forget the woman's name...

...but she was one of the main propagandists who implored the Hutus to massacre 800,000 ethnic Tutsi's in 1994. She was all over Rwandan radio pushing for this. And I recall in the article about her in the Sunday Times Magazine that she was unrepentant.

[jobycom]

25. Is this her?

Pauline Nyiramasuhuko

http://www.peacewomen.org/news/Rwanda/newsarchive03/ontrial.html

[LowerManhattanite]

26. That is her...

I remember feling physically ill when I read that story not too long ago. Damn!

[Liberal Classic]

29. Pauline Nyiramasuhuko

The first woman ever to be charged with genocide before the International Court.

[Rowdyboy]

23. Anastasia Beaverhausen or

(2nd choice) Florida serial killer Aileen Wuormos.

[Beaverhausen]

48. HEY! Watch it

why is anastasia so evil? :evilgrin:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

31. Tokyo Rose... Mata Hari.... Phyllis Schafly.... Anita Bryant

take your pick

[devilgrrl]

32. Carla Holmolka

Paul Bernardo's equally evil wife who's getting out of jail pretty soon. :puke:

[Maddy McCall]

34. Yes! She is truly evil. To drug, rape, and then murder her own little...

sister? And then play the "abused wife/victim" role to try to get off? I truly hate her!

The evil couple here:

http://www.justicejunction.com/Assets/Paul&Karlalimo.jpe

[mitchum]

59. She gets my vote

A banal, materialistic, monstrous, self-serving sociopath.

[Kire]

33. My Mother

I'm sorry, it's true.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

57. I'm sorry

you were so hurt...
And welcome to DU. :hug:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

35. Who was the nut who drove her car into the lake

and drowned her five kids? then claimed post-partum depression.

[devilgrrl]

37. You're thinking of two different people.

Susan Smith drove her car in a lake killing her two young sons and tried to pin the blame on a "black man" who car-jacked her. :puke:

Fundie loon Andrea Yates drowned her five children because she was "insane." :eyes:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

38. Okay.... they are both evil then

thank you.

[fudge stripe cookays]

46. Add Darlie Routier in there too....

Killed her two sons very close to where I live, and claimed it was an intruder. She and her husband were living a little too high on the hog, and evidently needed teh insurance money.

Note to Darlie: When you cut the screen to make it look like someone's been inside the house, cut it from the outside, or the metal filings land on the wrong side of the window.

[No2W2004]

36. Imelda Marcos,

Mao's wife

Catherine the Great.

[Speck Tater]

39. Go to the last page of the phone book and pencil in...

..."all of the above."

;-)

[elcondor]

41. Jiang Qing

Chairman Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four.

[JSJ]

42. #1Barbara Bush and #2 Nancy Reagan n/t

[Insider]

45. Ma Barker, Bonnie Parker

[EstimatedProphet]

50. I would have said Countess Bathory too

Evil through and through...
I'd also say my Ph. D. advisor.

[Ithuilwen]

51. She was the first to come to mind when I read your subject line. Gross! nt

[AspenRose]

53. Leona Helmsley

and my mother in law }(

My husband would agree with me 110%. She's currently suing her siblings for sole control of their late mother's estate. Never mind that these siblings took her in and cared for her for years. If she can't get total control, she's pushing to have the estate sold off to strangers, which would leave the siblings homeless.

[Chicago Democrat]

56. In all of history? gosh No women even come close to the worst man.

Elizabeth I killed alot of Catholics. Catherine the Great wasn't a nice girl. Nice girls hardly ever get to be queen before 1800.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

58. Don't forget "Bloody" Mary...

Elizabeth's half-sister. She had nearly 300 people executed.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

60. I'd Exempt Nancy Reagan..

Her spawn is cool....


Ron Reagan Jr. and Patti Davis...

[Astarho]

61. I'd have to say

Irene, Agrippina, Tomyris, Bloody Mary Tudor, and Isla Koch.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

62. Catherine De Medici?

Called the "Black Queen", "the Maggot from Italy's Tomb", and also "the very incarnation of evil". She married Henry II of France and took power when the King died in a jousting accident. She presided over the St. Bartholomew Massacre in which hundreds of Protestants were murdered.

The Chinese government has branded Tzu Hsi, the last Dowager Empress of the Ch'ing Dynasty as the very essence of evil, for her machiavellian tactics in seizing power on the throne of China, rising from the ranks of concubines (although there have been some historical accounts justifying her behavior under the circumstances).