Category: Abnormity
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The Abnormal Psychology of Leonarda Cianiculli
Leonarda Cianciulli’s life is summarized by tales of great psychological trauma and superstition. How dreary to think that one’s life can be told only in tales of sadness. Each milestone of life marked by a loss. Her adolescence summed in one sentence. Her marriage overshadowed by the deaths of her thirteen children and her overbearing…
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Women Who Kill: The Soap-Maker of Correggio
Born in 1894 in Montella, Italy, Leonarda Cianciulli was by all accounts a superstitious woman. Not much is known about Cianciulli prior to the killings but it’s believed that the events that occurred when she was an adolescent attributed to the type of monster, she’d grow up to become. Cianciulli was suicidal for most of…
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The Abnormal Psychology of Elizabeth Bathory
Elizabeth Bathory is special in that she is the only known female sexual sadistic serial killer without a dominant male partner – to this day, more than four hundred years later. She started on her own with her husband away at war, learned additional battlefield torture techniques from him when he was home visiting, and…
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