Bathory Crest

Bathory Site FAQ
Erzsébet Store!
Countess Facts
Black-on-White
Past Announcements
Bring Her Home!

Portrait 1600
Who Is Real?
Photos 1992
...More from 1992
Photos 2001
...More from 2001
Photos 2004
...More from 2004
Panorama 1992
Castle Walls
Opera Premiere
Use Limits

Cologne Journal
Original Scenario
Codrescu Scenario
Journal 1992
Journal 2001
Journal 2004 (PDF)

Bibliography
Premiere Review
Infamous Lady
Private Letters
Bathory Film
Miller: E. & Dracula
My Deux Essais
My Cloak Story
Wouters: Carpathian...
Pérez: Siete Lunas...
Carrillo: Legado...
Carrillo: Photos
Prayer of Erzsébet
Fans of Erzsébet
Art Gallery

Csárdás Music
Blood Scene Video
Detritus of Mating
All My Music
My Home Page
"We Are All Mozart"
Contact Me

 
 

The Prayer of Erzsebet

[adapted from McNally's translation]
Help me, O Clouds.
O Clouds, stay by me.
Let no harm come to me.
Let me remain healthy and invincible.

Send, O send, you powerful Clouds, ninety cats.
I command you, O King of the Cats, I pray you.
May you gather them together,
     even if you are in the mountains,
     or on the waters,
     or on the roofs,
     or on the other side of the ocean.
May these ninety cats appear to tear and destroy
          the hearts
     of kings and princes,
And in the same way
          the hearts
     of teachers and judges,
     so they shall harm me not.

Holy Trinity, protect me.





Signature on the Last Will and Testament, 1614
Signature on the Last Will and Testament, 1614