Horror Haiku Club Prompt

June 30 - Giulia Tofana

Operating in the early 1600s, Giulia Tofana sold Aqua Tofana to women around Rome in Italy.

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Your prompt is GIULIA TOFANA.

Your aqua brings death

And life. Were you true or false

Criminal or saint

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Aqua Tofana was a poison of Tofana’s own concoction, given to women who needed to rid themselves of abusive husbands that the law would not let them divorce. It is said that after her death, six other women took up her cause.