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Episode 216: In Quebec, on April 15, 1763, after a supposed confession and hasty trial by an English military tribunal, 30-year-old Marie-Josephte Corriveau was convicted of murdering in brutal fashion her second husband, Louis-Étienne Dodier, and was sentenced to death. She was hanged with haste, three days later. Her body was then put on display in a form-fitting metal cage and placed at a crossroad where for the next five weeks, she stood as a warning to others considering domestic homicide as an answer to an unhappy marriage. When her cage disappeared locals believed that the Devil himself had come and taken Marie-Josephte to hell. It said that La Corriveau's spectre haunts the crossroads still.Sources:
Marie-Josephte Corriveau - Wikipedia)
Uncertain Justice by F. Murray Greenwood, Beverley Boissery - Ebook | Scribd)
Killing Women by Wilfrid Laurier University Press - Ebook | Scribd)
The History of Gibbeting by Samantha Priestley - Ebook | Scribd)
La destinée de la Corriveau « Histoire du Québec)
Légende de la Corriveau – Voyage à travers le Québec)
Les anciens Canadiens - Philippe Aubert de Gaspé)
PressReader.com - Macabre Discovery)
La Corriveau: A woman victim of Society? by Isabelle Parent)
La Corriveau | The Canadian Encyclopedia)
The Hanging Cage That Held An Infamous Québec Murderess - Atlas Obscura)
Canadian Urban Legends: La Corriveau of Quebec City | NUVO)
A Shrine for Marie-Josephte Corriveau - KooZA/rch)
Cage of la Corriveau on display in Lévis | CBC News)
La Corriveau: The Gibbet of Quebec — YouTube)
French Mourning in the 1700s - Geri Walton)
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