POISONOUS LOVE POTIONS
SO-CALLED WITCH TO BE TRIED FOR MURDER (United Service.) London, June 17. The “Daily Mail’s” Vienna correspondent says that Anna Pistova, aged 92, the so-called “witch of Vladimirovac,” near Belgrade, will be tried on murder charges, together with the widows of six rich farmers, as the result of an accusation that she practised for many years the supply of deadly love potions to unhappy Serbian wives. The police regarded her as a harmless herbalist until the mysterious death of Burgomaster Carina of Novoselo last year. Madame Carina, a pretty woman of 29, led a cat-and-dog life with her husband. The bodies of Carina and twelve other husbands were exhumed. Autopsies disclosed vegetable poisoning. Pistova says that it was the wives’ fault if they overdosed their husbands. The widows declare that they merely tried to revitalise the husbands’ love, and did not intend to kill them.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 225, 19 June 1929, Page 11
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148POISONOUS LOVE POTIONS Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 225, 19 June 1929, Page 11
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