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Female evil spirits or malicious monsters in folklore, legends, and mythology. These monstrous women are often portrayed as predatory creatures, who are usually seen seducing male humans or snatching young children in order to kill, eat, or otherwise harm them.
Olga of Kiev the first woman ruler of Kievan Rus' and led a war against the Drevlians. Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a sniper in the Red Army during World War II. She was born in Bila Tserkva, Kiev Governorate, in the Russian Empire (now in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine) on 12 July [O.S. 29 June] 1916. [41] She is the deadliest woman sniper in history.
Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women is a 2008 non-fiction history book by the British Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, who also wrote 'Jerusalem: The Biography', 'Young Stalin', and 'Heroes - History's Greatest Men and Women', to which this book is a counter.
The LaLaurie mansion, from a 1906 postcard. Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy (March 19, 1787 – December 7, 1849), more commonly known as Madame Blanque or, after her third marriage, as Madame LaLaurie, was a New Orleans socialite and serial killer who was believed to have tortured and murdered enslaved people in her household.
Astarte; Blue Snowman; Cassie Arnold; Cheetah [2]; Circe; Dark Angel; Decay; Devastation; Disdain; Doctor Cyber; Doctor Poison; Eviless; Fausta Grables; Genocide ...
An estimated 75% to 85% of those accused in the early modern witch trials were women, [10] [126] [127] [128] and there is certainly evidence of misogyny on the part of those persecuting witches, evident from quotes such as "[It is] not unreasonable that this scum of humanity, [witches], should be drawn chiefly from the feminine sex" (Nicholas ...
Born in New Mexico, Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren made her mark by being the first woman of Mexican descent to run for U.S. Congress, helping New Mexico ratify the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, and tirelessly advocating for underrepresented populations and public education.
Ilse Koch (22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was commandant at Buchenwald.Though Ilse Koch had no official position in the Nazi state, [1] she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at war's end and was referred to as the "Kommandeuse of Buchenwald".