During the height of the Renaissance Era when evil and magic lurked around every dark corner, one man took advantage of those fears.

Hidden among the dense, shadowed forest in the Jura Moutain Range of France, a hermit and his wife turned to the village children as their form of sustenance. 

Plus a bonus story of a recent exoneration!!

Let’s Mourn…

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