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She is well known for her attempted poisoning of King Louis XIV as well as selling poison, aphrodisiacs, and abortions. She is said to have killed around 2500 people

A stone with an inscription that translates to: "In 1675 witches’ pyres burnt here. Women died, men judged. The belief of the time befalls man." The event described is the execution of dozens of alleged witches in Torsaker, Sweden.

Illustration of Puritan men in the process of a trial of a women accused of being a witch.