{"id":1612,"date":"2004-03-29T15:35:44","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T15:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2004-03-29T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2004-03-29T15:35:44","slug":"during-wwi-nagyrev-women-began-poisoning-their-husbands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2004\/03\/during-wwi-nagyrev-women-began-poisoning-their-husbands\/","title":{"rendered":"During WWI, Nagyrev women began poisoning their husbands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jim Fish<br \/>\nBBC World Affairs correspondent, Nagyrev, Hungary<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/3567679.stm\" class=\"external external_icon\">Nearly a century ago, with World War I raging, the womenfolk here began to poison their husbands<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/39963000\/jpg\/_39963445_1women203.jpg\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\nNow aged 83, Maria Gunya was a little girl when her father, a local official, was asked by the police to help investigate a series of unexplained deaths in the village.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that the woman behind many of the deaths was the village midwife, Zsuzsanna Fazekas. At that time, under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, there was no resident doctor or health service.<\/p>\n<p>The midwife enjoyed a monopoly of basic medical training.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The women used to come to Mrs Fazekas with their problems,&#8221; Mrs Gunya recalls.<\/p>\n<p>She said that when they complained about their drunken or violent husbands, Mrs Fazekas told them: &#8220;If there&#8217;s a problem with him, I have a simple solution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That solution was arsenic, distilled by the midwife by soaking flypaper in water.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, with the village cemetery filling up, police suspicions grew. They started to exhume bodies.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diepunyhumans.com\/archives\/000110.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">dph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jim Fish BBC World Affairs correspondent, Nagyrev, Hungary Nearly a century ago, with World War I raging, the womenfolk here began to poison their husbands. Now aged 83, Maria Gunya was a little girl when her father, a local official, was asked by the police to help investigate a series of unexplained deaths in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}