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.
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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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