"Upper Styria, 1451. At Graz in the mountainous regions of Upper Styria, now a province of Austria lived Barbara von Cilli, a beautiful woman much loved by Sigismund of Hungary. When close to death, she was apparently saved by the use of a secret ritual devised by Abramerlin the Mage, but as result was condemned forever.

The woman was the inspiration for Carmilla, ...(a story) about a female lesbian vampire by the Irish author, Joseph Sheridan Fanu".

Why did Le Fanu set his vampire novel in Styria in Austria, the same setting, which (according to his Notes preserved at the Rosenbach Foundation in Philadelphia) Bram Stoker later initially chose for his vampire Count (dracula)?

Who was Barbara von Cilli and how is she connected?

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What are the ties between Barbara von Cilli and the real count Vlad Dracula (the impaler)?

And why would Maria (Karen Zerby) a control and power-thirsty vampire herself, invent a "beautiful (female) spirit" that she called "Styrian".

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