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Beautiful Ukrainian Poltava – a green city surrounded by three hills, forests and lakes. They say that this place is always attracted sorcerers and witches. It is believed that the “witching class” appeared here during the foundation of Poltava and became truly an integral part of the city.
Poltava witches almost do not differ from their others a commodity – except perhaps with a sense of humor and even lethargy. However there is one terrible exception to this rule: Natalka Kravchenya, which was called Poltava Erzbieta Bathory …
Accidental loss or serial killings?
In 1904, in a remote village of the Poltava province, a series began mysterious events. In early spring, a girl named disappeared from the village Maria Burova. Having gone away for a short while from the hut, she disappeared without a trace. Father with his mother and other relatives went around looking for Mary all neighborhood, but did not find the girl neither alive nor dead. Deciding that an accident occurred, people did not report to the police about disappearance.
Shortly before Easter, another young and pretty girl. Suspecting that she was taken away by gypsies, fellow villagers announced what happened to the city police. A detective arrived in the village and, having stayed there a couple of days, went back with nothing. And in the summer the tragedy repeated twice more …
The mother of one of the missing girls in despair came to the fortune-teller Natalia, who lived on a farm near the village. She threw up the cards and reported unhappy woman that her daughter is not alive, advising come to terms.
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For a while, the mysterious disappearances ceased, and the villagers breathed a sigh of relief. However after christmas disappeared without a trace the daughter of the local saddler …
In just two years, under similar circumstances, seven disappeared. girls. The village headman demanded that the authorities accept decisive measures, because women and girls now did not dare leave your homes even during the day! ..
Searching for the mysterious killer
Soon, a bailiff Nikolai Solovo appeared in the village with several subordinates. Polite and patient, he achieved the location of the villagers, who usually don’t tend to trust outsiders. The tin carefully interviewed everyone who could at least help the investigation, and recorded them stories. After that, he, accompanied by the headman, began to explore the surroundings of the village.
The bailiff was interested in the old farmhouse – and he found out that he lives there a certain Natalka Kravchenya, who is known in the village as a witch. Despite the fact that the woman was already not young, she could boast of snow-white skin, black, without a single gray hair hair and bright, juicy ripe cherry lips.
According to the headman, local residents bypassed the farm, but the bailiff noticed that a well-trodden path leads to the house. When it turned out that the rural women, Solovo immediately knew where to look for traces of the disappeared girls. IN in fact, which of the girls refuses to tell fortunes to the bridegroom? ..
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The observation established for the farm did little: beautiful and slender housewife was doing her usual everyday activities. Unusual was the fact that, as read the police board certificate, Kravchenya was born almost 65 years old back! .. This struck Nikolai: it was impossible to give Natalka the appearance over twenty five! Also, observation showed that several times women from the village visited the farm, but then without incident were returning.
Sometimes Kravchenya went to the city where she bought books on occultism. This in itself was not a crime, but the policeman was alerted by the fact that, according to the villagers, all the disappeared girls were carried away by mysticism. Fortuneteller is always stipulated that all visits to her farm remain in strict a secret.
And the secret was revealed, why the witch did not grow old
The detective decided to secretly inspect the hut Kravcheni and household buildings in the yard. When she again moved into the city, Nikolai together with another policeman infiltrated her possessions. Men looked around the yard a barn and a stable, and then sneaked into the hut. Here Solovo discovered an underground manhole that was laid by homespun doormats.
Having descended from the lantern into the underground, Nikolai began an inspection. His attention was drawn to a large chest, which for some reason sank into the ground. This surprised the detective: the tightly packed floor had almost stone hardness. He didn’t have to settle under the weight even a large, iron-bound chest. Nikolai moved the chest: he turned out to be unexpectedly light, and the ground under it was a little loose …
With a checker blade, the bailiff began to carefully tear the ground and throw her boot to the side. Suddenly among the earth clods he saw white, as if made from alabaster, thin girl a hand. A silver ring flashed on the index finger …
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On the same day, Natalya Kravchenya was arrested. In the presence witnesses under the floor of her hut policemen unearthed a grave with a family bloodless girlish bodies. The witch confessed to the deed, however, she did not consider the killing of girls a crime, since those according to Kravcheny, they voluntarily gave her both their youth and their blood…
The investigation revealed that the fortuneteller, starting to age, wanted regain youth and for this with the help of occult books a lot years restored the crumbly ancient recipe. One of the ingredients Witchcraft recipe and was the blood of immaculate girls. Long experiments were successful: the witch restored the recipe completely.
Why did the witch not want to share the recipe for youth?
Kravchenya was sent first to Poltava, then to Kiev. From there she was delivered to the UK, where it went comprehensively forensic psychiatric examination. Medical consultation unanimously declared the killer to be absolutely healthy both physically and mentally. Doctors have confirmed that biological age Kravencheni is forty years less than chronological … She herself is all time insisted that her actions were exclusively ritual character.
Poltava witch categorically rejected the offer investigators and doctors discover the secret of their rejuvenation. there is information that with the same request to her through intermediaries one very influential person in Europe addressed, promising in exchange pardon. However, this tempting offer was left without the answer …
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The jury found the witch guilty and sentenced to of death. Officially, Natalka Kravchenya is considered to be her secret carried to the grave. However, she had a niece, about whom after 1888 year nothing is known. But it is known that on the witch’s farm in 1904 some guest came in the year … She could very well have become one mysterious niece and heiress of an ancient recipe. More Moreover, it seems that Kravchenya was not particularly afraid of death, since during the investigation she behaved impudently, with contempt rejecting any offers of pardon. Some modern witches believe that Natalka is still alive. And still young, beautiful and omnipotent. And therefore girls still disappear, but in our world missing people (reaching almost a million in a year to the whole world) is already considered something natural, like, say, collecting victims on the road …
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