Madame Giulia Toffana.
Italian woman who creates Aqua Toffana in the 1600's.
Aqua Toffana:
a "potion" or tonic, usually sold in vials decorated with a picture of St. Nicholas.
Contains, among other things, arsenic and belladonna.
Madame Giulia:
apparently an extreme feminist before her time,
was sympathetic to the plight of women who virtually had no status in society.
The main purchasers of her tonic were bored or unhappy housewives.
Apparently she was so well liked, that when authorities first attempted to arrest her, she was protected and hidden by the townspeople.
Eventually she was executed, and held responsible for the death of more than 600 people (mostly husbands?).
OK, besides the shock about a woman-mass-murderer (because they are pretty rare)
it's fairly, morbidly interesting that THAT many other women were also knowingly willing to murder their husbands....
Good thing the world has become a bit more equal for women since then, or who knows what could have eventually become of all the men.
This Botany class is actually pretty interesting.... and i haven't written about ricin yet.... that stuff is just messed up.
2 comments:
yeah, that's crazy, Didn't the wives die too though, along with their husbands? Because they applied it in front of them.
yeah, what a freak. Didn't the wives that applied it in front of their husbands die too though?
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