Giulia Tofana Killed Over 600 Men With Her Poisonous Makeup - Mystery & Makeup | Bailey Sarian

Hello my beautiful friends, how are you today? I'm so like hello, how are you? I hope it goes well for you. I changed my background. Be innovative and go back to the original color. I know. Fantastic, I love it, beautiful. Wow. My name is Bailey would be and today is Monday which means it's murder

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Makes it seem like I'm going to have a great story, right? No, you see this case, there is not much information about this woman, but it is too interesting and appropriate not to talk about it. The case of Julia Tofana, have you heard about her? Well, let me tell you, if you're ever curious about what I'm wearing, I'll link it in the description box below, but other than that, I'll just shut my little mouth and get right into it because this girl is crazy. so she's the most successful serial killer whose name you've probably never heard.

Let's welcome her to the stage, Julia-oh ah, I'm sorry the setup was like she was announcing it. Okay, yeah, she's the most successful serial killer Lip has ever had. I talked about Juliet killing hundreds of men in 17th century Italy when she turned her makeup business into a poison factory. Did I tell you it was appropriate because in a way it's okay? No, because I'm not killing people, it doesn't matter Julia, she's selling. a deadly concoction called aqua - fauna that was thought to be laced with arsenic, lead and belladonna. I didn't really understand what belladonna was.

Hmm, she doesn't know anything. I am an advertisement. I know that nightshade berry juice was used historically. In Italy you see women use just one drop in each of their eyes to dilate their pupils and what this would do is give their eyes a bright and striking appearance, which is why they say that lead and arsenic were common ingredients for the face powder at that time. and it would lighten the skin, you know, this was again during the Renaissance, when nobody knew any better, well, they found dilated pupils to be very attractive, which you know today, when you see someone with dilated pupils, you say, are you OK?

No, now again this took place during the Renaissance, so long distance marriages were still definitely a good thing, women were often forced into marriage only by their families without having any say, once married, men had control total control over their wives and women and only these women were left completely powerless, they had no control and they just had to sit back and accept it. Husbands often beat their wives and did not face any consequences. They would punish them for that and simply subject them to all kinds of cruel treatment again. They couldn't do anything. Which sucks, it was a world, it was a time when men simply ruled their own families and even the most aristocratic daughters were often seen as items to be auctioned off in loveless marriages, as if it didn't matter if you came from money. or anything, everyone, every woman was just an item, an accessory, just her divorce was definitely not a thing, but you would never think about leaving your husband, you wouldn't even mention it, so don't even think about it, sit there, look pretty, smile. and being a wife sounds horrible, so what do you do when you're in these abusive, unhappy, loveless marriages that you literally like you can't get out of which is your only option?

Well, some would say murder, so who was this Julia Tofana? Well, one of the most prolific in history. Serial killers are still a

mystery

, yeah, you heard that, okay? Look, there are no portraits of her. Her information about her is very sparse there or there was a picture around the portrait of a young woman she was holding. I think she was like a unicorn and many. had said that this was Julia that this was a portrait of her it was in fact proven that it was not her and there are no portraits or no known surviving portraits of Julia at all she is seriously like a big mystery I tried to search I tried, I was looking , can you find much?

I mean, I was a long time ago, what do I expect? Julia Tofana was possibly the daughter of a woman named Afonya D'Adamo Danielle, she was executed on July 16, 33 and was executed. Because she actually murdered her husband, Julia was now described as very beautiful and spent a lot of time with apothecaries, which are people who prepare and sell medicines and/or drugs, but she spent a lot of time hanging out with them and learning how do it. making her own concoctions how to make her own medicines how to make her own drugs Julia found a lot of interest in this she was also good at it she asked a lot of questions and started mixing her own potions now some say Julia learned to make her own poison but some They say that she actually learned how to make poison from her mother, the Afonya, who also made poison and passed the recipe to her daughter before she was executed, but some firmly believed that Julia had actually just learned how to make it. to become a harmless-looking clear liquid, a small four to six drops were enough to destroy a man and quote this is what Julia did, it was called aqua Tofana sounds bushi, so this product would appear to be a typical cosmetic product of woman. or even a religious healing oil that no husband or person would suspect to be a deadly poison and this poison was in Julia's possession and she started selling it and also her daughter also helped to make and sell it.

I'm sure all of you I know this like fragrance commercials God they're the worst it's like what's going on they never make sense they're always so sexual and just ridiculous they make sense anyway what I'm saying is aqua chill fauna sounds like something that would be like those damn Johnny Depp commercials where he's like he's weird in the desert and they're selling a fragrance that that's what it reminds me of, although that's not the point, so first Julia disguised Aqua Tofana as a woman with powder makeup you would like or could use. on the counter of their vanities next to their lotions and beauty-related products without raising any kind of suspicion you know what the hell it is that his second disguise was even more ingenious he sold water to fauna hidden in small bottles the bottle claimed to be manna from Saint Nicholas of Bari, a special healing ointment that looked like a devotional object.

You're probably wondering, why is he doing this in the first place? Because Julia sympathized with low-status women and most of the time she peddled her poison to women who were trapped in difficult and abusive marriages, she really wanted to help. She became known as a friend of the troubled wife and you know, because of her word of mouth, she was well known among her peers. Aquata Fauna provided a quick and discreet solution. To them this seems crazy now, to be fair she also sold her concoction to men, but mostly many of her customers were just women, mainly women, and these women would buy it from Julia and then give it to her husbands, he was her only one. exit apparently now this product was popular because it was almost impossible to detect and it was a slow-acting poison that had two key benefits it made these symptoms it produced in its victims resemble those of I don't know an advanced disease like A flu also made It seemed like it was a death from natural causes and because it

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slowly, most men put their affairs in order or even wrote a will.

Most people during this time were deeply religious and I. I laugh because look, most people were deeply religious. I'm not laughing at that, that's great because it was a slow acting poison that gave them time to repent of their sins, which was highly believed to guarantee their entry into heaven, which also made the wives feel better. , oh well at least he repented of his sins so now he will like to go to heaven when he dies so he let you know that women feel better and also they wrote a will which is now funny if I say so myself.

Again, this product was also colorless and tasteless and made it into liquid instead of powder, that way it was easy for women to mix it with water or wine during meals every time and they also ate it as soup and just place a couple of drops there now, the symptoms would actually go unnoticed, the first small dose would produce cold-like symptoms and by the third dose the victim would feel very sick, vomiting diarrhea from dehydration and a burning sensation in the stomach and then to stop. the fourth dose would kill the victim so women would just add a small drop to food or drink and just a little bit and do it one day at a time, some women would do one shit at a time and get very sick and die Women in Italy during that time only had three ways to make a living: they got married, they begged or they became a prostitute.

Now I know that the word prostitute is a bit frowned upon, it's not that we now call them sex workers, but in the past it was considered prostitution. So I'm going to say that women who were prostitutes often died in childbirth due to complications, many times the women had tribes of children, I mean tons of children, there was one woman who was super powerful and she was in her eighth year. son and died from complications. She came from a very rich family. I want to say her name, but I know I'm going to say it wrong.

She came from a very powerful family at the time and they were very, very rich. You would think that even rich people could afford to take care of their women and they didn't, often they just died after trying to give birth or giving birth again, the women were beaten and abused and just helpless and well some Women just straight up hated their wives. Husbands and many wives simply feared childbirth because I mean they could die. See, their lives didn't seem to be so good. I think we can all agree on that and they were no less than... they were not listened to and if they beat you all the time, it is much better to be considered a widow, which was frowned upon, it is a much better option than dying That's for sure, I think we can all agree on that, but we shouldn't murder people, Bailey.

I can't say I'm not saying that, so Julia's clients were very protective of her and her clients would only recommend Julia if they knew she was someone who could be trusted and someone who was a good friend and no one would ever know. send someone to Julia if they knew this person was suspicious or whatever, so again it was all word of mouth, they were really protective of her because if the authorities found out what Julia was doing and what she was selling, not only They would kill her but also her. Her client list would shrink with her, so everyone was very calm about what was going on.

Now it was like everyone's little secret to be able to sell this product. Julia really just needed a front, so what she did was open her own cosmetics counter. but not really because she was selling her own cosmetics to women in southern Italy, some women simply came to her for cosmetics, but most of her customers would be interested in aquatic fauna and if there was any suspicion about what Julia was doing it, she could easily say: What are you talking about? I'm selling cosmetics, obviously, and this seemed to work for her because she was doing this for almost 50 years, yes, 50 years, everyone kept their mouths shut, which is surprising.

I'm not saying women can't keep their mouths shut, but come on, you'd think someone would say the right thing, they were good, they were loyal now, poison was women's weapon of choice when they wanted to murder someone in medieval and early modern Europe. . Annette Drew Bare has argued that Renaissance plays featured women applying face paint on stage to reference the false and

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nature of women, but what I'm making is that Julia Tufano was not the only woman associated with the poisoning of people in the Renaissance, far from it. Although Julia and her daughter operated very quietly, they would obviously have to continue for about 50 years in Italy, so they ended up moving to Naples and then Rome, where she continued her flourishing business.

There was like a diary written about this time and in this diary she said that she again becameadministered in wine or tea or some other liquid the husband would feel weak and then he would feel bad and they would call a doctor and after the second dose of the poison the weakness would become more pronounced a beautiful wife expressed a lot of anxiety about the illness of her husband and a lot of stress and would rarely be under suspicion for the way she acted, many of the women would be instructed on how to act when giving the poison to the husband, how to do it, so they would do it again. put it in the husband's food, they would put one drop a day very slowly and then when the doctor came, the doctor would see the husband and say: well, you have a very simple illness, we will give you this medicine that will make you feel. a hundred times better and then they would call the doctor again a couple of days later because now the husband is worse, the healer would be completely baffled like, what the hell is going on?

I gave you some, it's a simple illness, I gave you some medication like you should be so much better and it would leave the doctors really confused about what's going on, what you took, whatever, so they would give them more medication and the next thing you know, that the victim would be Julia, dead, he made sure to tell his clients what to do after the fact, so he would say, "You have to act a certain way, you have to act like you're full of anxiety and stress and sadness, and everything." the right thing shows up, do it.” and then he said, above all, that after her death it was necessary to demand a post mortem examination that would not work, they would never be able to trace anything and then the widow would be 100% seen as innocent and no one could blame her and Julia did I'm sure everyone his clients went ahead with it that way, none of them would be under suspicion of killing the husband and it was smart, this was again a long time ago and they couldn't trace arsenic or anything like that in the body so he always let everyone confused about what was going on at the time, they thought it was just the flu, everyone was getting the flu and dying in the wild, because people stubbed their toe and died, so I mean it was a pretty solid plan now .

It may seem like Julia was just telling her product like it was nothing, left and right here, you take a, didn't you know she was very, very selective about who she sold a capsule, she made sure that every new customer she took on was endorsed by her. she did background checks on them, pretty much like asking who recommended them and then she would go and check with that person, hey, is this person legit? She was doing her homework to protect herself and cover her butt, sure, unless I explain more and then Julia did a bit of rebranding on the bottle, she actually included instructions on how to use it, now this was to cover her butt again because on the bottle it would say a little bit step by step on how to use it, which would make it seem more like a cosmetic product like using one or two drops on your face at night, so Julia started putting this little label on there or even give the women a little card and these women were making sure to leave it there or leave the card nearby again to just make sure and show that this is a beauty product, this is a cosmetic product, this is nothing like a drop or two at night, leave me alone, you know, and then if the husbands died and these women were interrogated even more intensely, then it might be like look, there are instructions in it.

I've been using it so it wasn't me and because Aqua Tofana had belladonna in it, which was in a lot of beauty products again, that would further prove that it was in fact a cosmetic product. Belladonna makes my eyes nice and big, yes, but good things can't last forever. Julia, you know, I don't know, look, really talk. I don't know if she's the good one or the bad one here and I know what I'm going to get. a lot of hate for that because of course murders are horrible and never like no one knows just don't do it murder just don't do it again this is during a time when women had no choice , they couldn't get divorced.

They were going to die in childbirth, they were going to be beaten and they lived miserable, horrible lives, what else were they supposed to do? Julia is the one here who has an old heart and she wanted to help these women get out. Do you blame them and I know it? That sounds horrible, but I mean, think about it, nowadays you have so many options to get out of a marriage and all that, so you shouldn't murder anyone, but this again, they didn't have any options, they were going to die while the men they had to go. just do your thing and mark if you masturbated, maybe anyway, as I said in the 1650s, although everything collapsed on a soup plate, yes, that's right, a damaged soup plate, a lady went shopping to Julia, she was the new Julia. did her part, did her little background check on this, this lady made sure it's legit, you know, she's not going to rat her out or anything, she's not a cop, but this lady bought the product and she takes it home, she will use on it.

Her husband wants out of her marriage and she needs to get away from this man, so this woman ends up making dinner for her husband and they are having a nice bowl of hot soup and she takes just two drops and puts it directly into her husband's glass. . soup, she calls him while they have honey soups ready and her husband comes and sits, he also demands some wine and she says okay, yes, then she goes and asks him why and he sits now this ma'am, I mean, it's good for her, obviously it is. is a good person, she sees her husband reaching for the soup and he goes to slurp it up whatever he takes a couple of sips and she ends up yelling at him to stop and almost gets slapped with guilt and regret so she yells at him her husband stopped eat to leave her and she just got scared and didn't tell her husband why, she just yelled at him to put down the soup and stop eating it, of course her husband told her: why do you want me? to stop eating the soup it's a bit strange it is said that he holds her down and hits her and demands that she tell him what is in the soup as if he has the feeling that there is something in the soup what is it, you better tell me what's going on Continuing with this, she confesses that she said she put poison in him.

No she's over baby she's over so this husband is upset for good reason she just tried to kill him and he ends up dragging her to the authorities in Rome and the authorities hooked this up. The lady used some kind of torture device to get any information she had, so it's not looking good for her. It's a little unclear if this woman was murdered or not. I'm going to say it was probably based on her history, so she confesses everything, word got out that someone had confessed and it got to Julia, now they warned Julia she was like, hey, look, soup, it happened, this lady He confessed, you have to run away, you have to get out of here because they are going to come looking for you, then Juliana starts to panic, she knows her destiny, she is going to die, Julia is going to die, she will use, she is going to die, Julia, I'm sorry , Julia ends up packing, packing her things and goes to find a place to stay and ends up.

She was going to a church and she asked the church for shelter and they granted it to her. Her plan was to stay there until she could escape. I'm not sure what she was planning to escape from, but Julia is just hiding in this church, so people However, now people found out about what this woman said there, her arrest and her interrogation and now the rumors are starting, people are talking good and somehow there was a major rumor that Julia had poisoned the water supply throughout Rome, you know? how the rumors go it's a big game of telephone it starts with one thing and ends completely out of control exaggerated she didn't do that she didn't poison the water supply in all of Rome but everyone believed she did it of course people are furious and want for Julia to die, okay, they want her eliminated, word also spread that Julia was actually hiding in a church, a lot of people gathered.

I imagined just a crowd of people with steak knives, no, sorry, what are they? Those things called forks, it doesn't matter, a crowd of people gather and come storming into the church demanding Julia and they tell this church you need them to give her to us, give her to us, we're burning this place down, of course, the church is like Sorry girl, we have to turn you in, you know, so the church turned Julia over to the authorities, they took her in for questioning, but really I guess they just tortured her until she confessed what she had been doing, so Julia ended up confessing to having

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more than he averaged six hundred men between 1633 and 1651 and the number was believed to be even higher.

The authorities also forced her to name some of her clients, not all obviously because she said she couldn't remember many of them, but she could name names on July 16 fifty-nine Julia was executed along with her daughter and three employees yes, I remember your daughter I'm sorry I didn't actually mention her much because again there wasn't much information about her but she did have some employees and unfortunately they all went down on her which I like I just talked lightly about 600 men , that's a lot of damn men, that's Wow, this is what no one really knows, okay, this story is said to be true because there are like magazines.

Written about that from that time again as if there were no paintings of her, there were no portraits of heard people, there was nothing to prove that she was a real person, what if all this is just nonsense? Then, Julia, three of her employees and her daughter were murdered. and they were murdered in the Campo de Fiori in Rome, it is a square that was called the Field of Flowers because it had remained an open field for a long time in ancient Rome, but over time they had paved it and turned it into a square that It would become a very popular place to hang people and burn them at the stake.

I looked for it, there are many beasts with air rays. Now I was able to get an air B&B next to the square where tons of people were hanged, murdered, burned at the stake and I got an Airbnb, it's not crazy, come on, sadly, the story, although it's okay, look, everyone was murdered. Julia's body was thrown over the wall of the church that had offered her sanctuary as a great fu, now some of her clients did too. Chastened after her confession, several customers tried to play dumb and claimed that her fauna aquata was simply for cosmetic purposes and that they had no idea, they just had no idea that you could kill someone with it.

She had no idea what wild was, it was harder to determine. Well, who was like a real customer and who was actually thinking that this was a cosmetic product, but some of the customers were also directly executed while others were locked in the dungeons of the Holy Office palace? She now said that there were several others that were connected. I mean, obviously there are 600 victims and then there are a lot of people involved, but a lot of them just ran away. It's also possible that Julia exaggerated the number of victims because she was being tortured when she was being investigated and you know, people just say whatever they want to stop the torture, so a lot of people also believe that she could have been saying this number to To make the authorities happy, perhaps they continued to interrogate and pressure her to get a larger number and once they were satisfied with the number. that she gave them, they were like, okay, yeah, that sounds good, 600, you're dead, some believe that Julia was completely innocent, that she might as well have just been a woman who was into cosmetics at the time and was selling cosmetics, but during that time there was a literal witch hunt going on all over Europe and women who did anything, many women were suspected of just being murdered for anything, so there are people who believe that Julia wasn't actually responsible for all this and they killed an innocent woman plot twist I'm right so long after Julia's death the legend of the aquata fauna continued in 1791 you know the composer Mozart you've heard of him so he fell seriously ill he was convinced of that he had been poisoned and days before his death he said quote I won't last much longer I'm sure I've been poisoned I can't get rid of this idea that someone has given me Tofana water end of quote yes, yes, he said it eh eh, Historians believe he actually died of syphilis fever or from eating undercooked pork, so that was a bit of an exaggeration, but it is possible that his paranoia shared by many of those who fell ill in those days was testament to the continued terror inspired by Julia Tofana Tofana, why did I say it like that?

Don't know. that's the story of Julia Tofana and her aqua top concoction in this one really piqued my interest because it's just fascinating. I don't know, we have history, we have Mozart, we have poison that looks like something out of Alice in Wonderland, possibly. many victims and you never hear about it. Don't know. I just found it very, very fascinating. I'd love to hear your thoughts on Juliet's fauna below. Do you believe it? I don't know, I'm not really. I'm going to say it I was about to say I think it would be a great story,but I mean there are a lot of victims, Bailey, that's not very good, like shut up, uh-huh, let me know who you want me to talk about next week besides that.

I hope you have a wonderful day today, make good decisions and please be careful, don't poison anyone because nowadays you can get out of marriages and all that, there's no reason to murder people, okay, I'll see you guys . then sorry, it's really addictive fauna aquata goodbye