FATAL LOVE PHILTERS
A STORY FROM.> SERBIA
United Serrtofe < (Received 18th June, ,1 p.m.)'
. LONDON, 17th June. The "Daily Mail's" Viemaa 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 dea'dly 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 thev merely tried to revitalise • the husbands' love, and did not intend-to kill them;' <
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 18 June 1929, Page 9
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