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Poison widows : a true story of witchcraft, arsenic, and murder / George Cooper.

Title: Poison widows : a true story of witchcraft, arsenic, and murder / George Cooper.
Author: Cooper, George, 1937-
Publication: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

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xiii, 287 p., [16] p. of plates; 22 cm.

Summary

This book describes a world where the evil eye could bring ruin upon a family, where malevolent spirits stalked the living, and where the only relief lay in the fattuchiere, the witch doctors of the Old Country. It tells the story of self-proclaimed sorcerer, Louie "The Rabbi" Bolber, who claimed he could cure cancer with a magic butter knife given to him by a Chinese witch; Paul Petrillo, who discoered that the Rabbi's love potion, while useless as an agent of romance, was quite a handy and seemingly untracerable poison, and the dozens of "poison widows" who sent theri husbands to an excruciatingly painful death.

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Case studies.

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committed to retain

ISBN

0312199473

LCCN

^^^98043796^

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Harvard Library