As the saying goes, it’s sugar and spice, and all things nice. That’s what little girls are made of. In digging around for these stories, I found a few examples of the sugar. Enough in fact, that I’m planning to do another episode down the road on that. But today’s episode is all about those little girls who were cooking with spice. 

Music recommendation for this episode: 

• Will & Worry by Land Lines
• Night Witches by True Widow
• Febersvan by GAUPA

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Sources for this episode: 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulia_Tofana
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Tofana
• https://mikedashhistory.com/2015/04/06/aqua-tofana-slow-poisoning-and-husband-killing-in-17th-century-italy/
• https://aspectsofhistory.com/giulia-tofana-power-poison/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franceska_Mann
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando
• https://www.holocausthistoricalsociety.org.uk/contents/jewishaccounts/franceskamannactofresistanceinbirkenau.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_d%27Aubigny
• https://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/23/1943/ballerina-franceska-mann-kills-nazi-guard-and-injures-two-others-auschwitz
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomyris
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev
• https://wrightmuseum.org/the-soviet-night-witches/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Raskova

Sound mixing performed by Brother Jay from The Rule of Scary podcast - check that out if you’re a horror movie fan! And hey! Thank you for listening to my stories. Keep it weird out there.

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