Ana di Pištonja, also known as Baba Anujka and “The Witch of Vladimirovac”.
The “witch of Vladimirovac” was the Nightmare of yoke men. One of the biggest series killers ever was arrested at the age of 90 and never took a gun.
Was baptized Ana, but became known as Baba Anujka The “Vladimirovac Witch”, detained in 1928, at the age of 90, after a career to kill the husbands of the other.
Serbian-Romanian Ana Di Pištonja will have been involved in the death of dozen-possibly hundreds-of men in ancient Yugoslavia.
Born around 1837, in a region that today belongs to Romania, Baba Anujka will have grown in a wealthy family, with a careful education and a private school. He dominated five languages, but it was chemistry and medicine that aroused his interest and gave him the necessary talent for a life in crime.
Still young man moved with his family to Vladimirovactoday Serbian territory but at the time part of the Austrian Empire. He fell in love with an Austrian officer and his disgust-he abandoned her after allegedly contacted her with syphilis-he will have taken Ana to bad ways.
He later married a rich elder owner, with whom he had 11 children-although only one survived to adulthood. After two decades of marriage, he became a widow. It was at this time that it began to become the legendary “Vladimirovac witch”, recalls the.
The laboratory where “magic happened”
After the death of her husband, Ana built a small laboratory at home, where she started preparing mixtures with herbs and toxic substances. Some of a benign nature served to relieve disease or even help men escape military recruitment by making them temporarily weakened. Already others had sinister purposes.
Started selling “Magic waters” e “Potions of Love”aimed above all to rural women who wanted to get rid of abusive or unhappy marriages-at a time when divorce was taboo and almost impossible to obtain. Many of these mixtures contained arsenic and extracts of poisonous plants.
Baba had the help of Ljubina Milankov, a kind of intermediate that spread the fame of the witch among the women in the village. Ljubina heard the complaints of the wives near the village well and, when someone expressed marital problems, suggested the intervention of the miraculous Baba Anujka.
As explained by historian Mircea Maran to BBC,
Customers resorted to the witch to get someone get sick, go crazy or die. The formula was simple: Baba Anujka Asked how “heavy” was the problem “A disguised way of knowing the victim’s weight and calculating the right dose – and guaranteed:” After the eighth day, it will no longer have problems, “recalls historian Mircea Maran to.
And in fact, the victims, healthy men, died a few days after ingesting the potions. Many of the women who resorted to their services claimed not to know that the mixtures were lethal, believing these are mystical remedies.
The 90 -year -old witch fall
Police never suspected Baba Anujka’s activity. Only when a regular client, Stana Momirov, abused his luck, did the police began to investigate.
Stana made the mistake of resorting to Baba services to solve not one but two “heavy problems”. After successfully using a Baba Anujka potion to kill her first husband, she decided to do the same to eliminate her second husband’s rich uncle.
When the two men died in similar circumstances, the police began an investigation. Stana, under pressure, eventually confessed and identifying Baba Anujka as a venom seller. This happened in 1928the witch had 90 years. It was arrested with several accomplices, including Ljubina Milankov.
During the detention, I will have said frightening words:
“I am collaborating with the devil, young. If they arrest me, they will remember me until the end of your life. Do not move with the forces of the devil.”
Despite the notice, the authorities took her to trial. On June 7, 1929, the Pančevo District Court was full. Forensic tests performed on exhumed bodies confirmed the presence of poison as a cause of death. But Baba Anujka never admitted guilt. It claimed to sell only natural remedies, and never deadly substances.
It was never known for sure what was the total number of victims of the witch, but It is estimated that it may have killed between 50 and 150 peopleall poisoned with their potions.
Behind a sweet, smiling and delicate old lady was hidden an authentic evil servant.
