Bluebeard's Sacrificial Crimes

Gilles de Rais was one of the first “modern” serial killers even though he was alive during the 15th century. Experts believed that he killed anywhere from 140 to 800 children (DeBoer., 2001). He was also one of the lieutenants under the infamous Joan of Arc (DeBoer., 2001). Gilles was believed to be a great sorcerer (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology., N.D.). He is also considered to be Bluebeard from old nursery songs (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology., N.D.). Bluebeard was associated with many horrible crimes and other atrocious things (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology., N.D.). Gilles’ trial was in 1440 when he was also executed for his crimes (Holloway., 2001). His crimes were rape, Satanism, mutilation, sodomy,
In 1420 Gilles married a rich heiress, Catherine de Thouars, who supposedly had a better estate than the King of France himself (DeBoer., 2001). That same year Gilles fought for his country for duchy of Brittany (DeBoer., 2001). Gilles continued to fight for the Duchess of Anjou (DeBoer., 2001). In 1424 when his father died he had 300,000 livres, which was the form of currency then and also 15 domains (Holloway., 2001). When Gilles became a very accomplished lieutenant, he fought right beside Joan of Arc in a few battles (Holloway., 2001). In 1435 Gilles received a decree from the King stating that he cannot sell or mortgage his land (Holloway., 2001). By now, Gilles is learning esotericism and wanted to gain knowledge and power (Holloway., 2001). Engaging in various rituals, he tried to get more money. His incredible military career continued until he was accused of murdering hundreds of children (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology.,
Whenever Gilles left his house, he told his wife to stay out of the tower (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology., N.D.). Once, when he left to go to the Holy Land on Easter Day in 1440, his wife and her sister both agreed that there had to be some other entrance to the tower (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology., N.D.). The sisters found the entrance and on the first floor of the tower they found a satanic ritual area complete with an inverted cross and an altar with the Devil standing on it (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology., N.D.). On the second floor of the tower the two sisters found an alchemy laboratory with furnaces, retorts, alembics, and charcoal (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology., N.D.). The sister wanted to turn around and go back to the main portion of the castle but Gilles’ wife wanted to keep going so her sister came with (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology., N.D.). On the third floor of the tower was a table in the middle of the room with a dead child and blackened blood everywhere in the room (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology., N.D.). Madame de Rais tried to clean up the blood but she only smeared it and made it become a bright scarlet (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology., N.D.). Around the walls were copper vessels filled with blood that had the dates of death marked down on