breast hanging

Hello, everyone! In closing out my celebratory year, I was inspired by @wulf 's posting awhile back of the great excerpts from William Fifield’s “The Devil's Marchioness” about the true-life 17th century French serial killer, the Marchioness (or Marquise) de Brinvilliers Marie-Madeleine...

After the battle, and the subsequent slaughter in the village, we took three women captives away with us. We didn’t plan to keep them with us very long, as they would slow us down and we needed to be mobile. They would provide us with much amusement at our encampments over the next several...