Imagine one day your local pharmacist is arrested and accused of drinking the blood of infants and flying on the back of a goat to an orgy involving the devil. From the 14th through the 18th century, there were some wild superstitions about witches. The first witch to confess to riding a broom was a man: Guillaume Edelin. But it was Matteuccia di Francesco who was the first accused and tried for flying.
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01/18/22 • 22 min
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Criminalia - Matteuccia di Francesco: The Woman Who Could Fly
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Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shonda Land Audio in partnership with I Heart Radio. Imagine one day your local pharmacist is arrested and accused of drinking the blood of infants and flying to an orgy involving the devil. Welcome to Criminalia. I'm Maria Marquis and I'm Holly Fry. Let's talk about that pharmacist. Matteuccia di Francesco Matteuccia was born in in the small village of Ripa Bianca in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria re
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