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Part One: Aqua Tofana: How to Kill Your Husband

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The Black Knight of Hungary

Her family was Calvinist on paper, but they practice Satanism and witchcraft at home. When she was 13, she bore her first child, who was fathered by a peasant boy. The child was whisked away and never seen again. And in the same year, she was married off to a baron named Nadadci. She got like her own extra castle and 17 villages to own because feudalism is weird. Her husband was a noble and a soldier and he was always away from home,. They didn't conceive their first child until they've been married for like 10 years. He would impale them for fun. At one point he punishes a girl by smearing her

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