Husbands and lice.
Story of a process and a miraculous vinegar
Author Joan River
As husbands with a lotion to kill lice? A true story and ruthless. More than ever a reflection on the fragility of the nuclear family. Palermo in the late eighteenth century, Giovanna Bonanno, an old widow and a beggar, known as "Old Vinegar" sells its miraculous water to some women who wish to dispose of their husbands, a strange form of non-consensual divorce, interpreted as magic or witchcraft, and largely tolerated by the surrounding society. The potion, made with arsenic, is manufactured by an honest "herb" to kill the lice, but Jeanne discovers a very different use and advertising to make ends meet as a magic cure, a "mysterious liquor" miraculous solver difficult marital situation. A story with a strong female lead, where men and women of the little people talk about their sex life and marriage with the words that a clerk of court verbalize more than two hundred years ago, the author reconstructs the dossier judiciary.
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