The First Documented Female Serial Killer | Locusta the Poisoner
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- What's up guys, it's Ollie from History Profiles and today I will be telling you about Locusta the first documented female serial killer in history. She was known to be an expert in herb lore and the art of poisons and this mastery would lead her into the inner circle or Rome's emperor's and empresses, anyway let's get into the video.
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Ravished to death?? I've heard of many ways to die but that's a particularly disturbing sentence.
I know lucas no one deserves that, I hope you enjoyed the video!
@@historyprofiles does ravished to death mean raped by many men ? That's how it sounded to me 🤔
@Danchinoloves !! Yeah that’s what it means, I couldn’t say raped because yt may demonotize or take down the vid
@@historyprofiles I heard that before from the channel Serial Killers. Ewe Tuuob is becoming Puritan in their old age.
@@historyprofiles I had read her fate was even worse. She was ravaged by a specially trained giraffe and then torn apart by animals.... The old days, am I right?
I'd never heard of her. I knew Claudius had been poisoned, but didn't know she was a well-known herbalist. Good story.
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoyed the video!
"Ravished to death" by scores of men. That shit is sickening.
I know sarita, no one deserves to go out like that. I hope you enjoyed the video!
Sick is the right word. I couldn't think of a more awful to way to go..that was horrifying
I was like 😵💫wtf
@@historyprofiles what does that mean?
The supposed true story is that she was " ravaged " to death by a specially trained Giraffe brought in from one of the conquered territories. Look it up.
An herbalist joining the dark and evil realm. Yes. She had an agonising death herself.
Ollie. More profiles like this please.
Thank you for watching Ayape! Don't worry I have more like this coming up!
@@historyprofiles I am so pleased. 🏛
@@Agapy8888 have a nice weekend 🌞☀️🙋♀️🌺🌺❤👍
@@marinakaiser7639 Marina. Thank you. Enjoy yours as well.
Yes. Very informative.
What's even more surprising is that there was a myth that she was executed by being ravaged by a goddamn giraffe, a giraffe of all things, to think something in real life managed to top off berserk's infamous horse scene
Huh...I was expecting that in the end she would have taken advantage of her own skills and poisoned herself.
I mean, same honestly. I sure would've
Depends if she had access to her pharmacopia which I doubt she did.
Maybe she suffers the same fate as the Poison King(forgot what his name is); made themselves immune to poisons.
She got immune to it by eating a very little part of poison every day.
Hiya ollie... They were dangerous times. Any person's of consequence were living on the edge... every mouthful of food or drink... couldn't even trust a feather! I wonder how many tasters met their maker?
I enjoyed your narration. 👏👏👏
Yes the food taster was a crazy job! And very dangerous times even for the all powerful. I hope you enjoyed the video!
I'm not condoning her actions but hopefully the 'scores of men' involved in her death had totally miserable lives.
Another great presentation, thanks so much for your work and research.
Have a great week!! 👍🏼 ❤️
I agree Janet no one deserves to go out like that, thank you so much for watching though! Have a great week too
This was very common, a imperial princess was a virgin and you couldn't kill virgins in Rome, so she was raped and killed.
In any other case those actions would be awful but this woman murdered hundreds, many of them for her pleasure or for the sake of testing one of her poisons.
She deserved every second of what she got.
he he he 🤭
I mean she killed people... I have no sympathy for her.... If she was a man, am not sure people will care
Even Though She May Have Killed A Lot Of People...I Wouldn't Necessarily Call Her A Serial Killer. From My Take, She Was An Extremely Ambitious Woman Who Was Willing To Do ANYTHING To Obtain What She Wanted, Despite What She Had To Do To Obtain It. No Matter How Many People They Have To Kill, There Are No End To GREED For Some People...And She Proved It!
She was ambitious and a master of herb lore no doubt she was incredibly smart! All the sources and articles I read about her dubbed her as a serial killer so I thought it would be a good title for the video, anyway I hope you enjoyed the video Rebecca! Tune in next Thursday for more!!
@@historyprofiles Loved The Video! Till Next Week....
I'm so glad that you said that. agree.
I would have called her the world's first documented, female, paid assassin, or 'inhumer', perhaps in another world.
@@ursamajor6347 TRUE! You Summed It Up Better Than Me.
Mass murderer.
Thanks Ollie, this is right up my street, I love poisons and herb lore! Grow my own in a special area of my garden (Do not use them on anyone or anything though!) Those poor food tasters, what a thankless job role indeed. Love the touch of the poisoned feather, clever. What an awful end for her as well, basically sexually assaulted to death, wow give me belladonna any day over that.
Great video Ollie
Thank you The Crime Reel!
Locusta: Let's do lunch!
Me: Uhhhh
LOL
To quote a character from I, Claudius, "I'd bring my own wine if I were you..."
How do you not have more subscribers?!
Thank you for watching Honda E! And Thank you so much for your comment! I'm slowly getting there with your help!
Should have a 100k at least
Algorithms are a bitch sometimes....
Great video, very interesting, we don't hear that much about female serial killers ❤️
Thank you so much !
I don't know why I'm fascinated by these historical cases.. such evil deeds don't help me sleep- and the manner of her death..ugh... ☹️😦😧
Thank you so much for watching Chere! I hope you enjoyed the video and will tune in for next weeks!
@@historyprofiles Lol, I will tune in next week, despite my horror!!! 😂😂👍
Great topic! Appreciate your efforts on this video
I do wonder if 'serial killer' applies. Assassin perhaps? I wonder if there was any pleasure in the act of poisoning others or if it was purely a job. Attitudes to death were certainty different so I'd love to know if she was what we call a serial killer or perhaps a herbalist and chemist with little guilt and an empty purse
@@picklerick.n.666 they sure are. People die of poison all the time..?
Thank you for watching! She was instrumental in the deaths of many people, so I would still class her as a killer, maybe assassin could be a better describing word but I relate that to ninja style murders lol, anyway I hope you enjoyed the video!!
@@historyprofiles I loved the video!
I've heard her being described as such before but for me she was providing a product/ service. The same way we dont call people in the military 'serial killers' today, I don't think of her as one
That said, maybe she was a text book serial killer and went into this career because of her desire to kill and only then picked up her knowledge of plants and toxins. We will never have her inner thoughts so who knows which is correct
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Greetings Ollie. Looking forward to this narration.
Good morning everyone. You always pick great cases Ollie! Thank you for the dedication and time. I look forward to your next one.
Thank you so much Rose! I appreciate it!
Rose Tyler Bad Wolf always fantastic to see a fellow Whovian in the comments 💙💙
@@jenniferblackwell0706 aww thank you. I love Doctor Who. Who was your favorite doctor and companion?
My fav companion is Rose my fav DR is 12 Peter Capaldi but its a tight race between him an 10 Tennant💙💙 who is your fav DR
@@jenniferblackwell0706 surprisingly the same. Ten was brilliant and hilarious and 12 was just straight to the point and really did a great job of portraying the doctor and his grief. But they both depicted the doctor really beautifully. Rose is my favorite companion as well.
I admire how you each recommend and help promote one another's channels. Thank you for this recommendation Brief Case! Caio
I thought the two were the same voice? I mean Brief Case and this one. They sure sound the same.
Well that ending was horrifying...
I know no one deserves that, I hope you enjoyed the video!
Soo we’re here. We all know why we’re here.
Awesome 😎👍😎 as always Ollie keep up the great work that we all appreciate 🙂🙂🙂
Thank you Poky! More coming next Thursday!!
“Hey sis, wasn’t that the famous poison lady? What were you two doing in the kitchen all morning?”
Rome was an absolutely horrible place in ancient times. Yikes.
Always amazing to listen you narrating those stories. I do learn a lot as i relisten them. Great job as always Ollie. Thank you.
I enjoyed it very much! Thank you. Sorry later here, but had to finish bit work. Ads all good!👍🏻 Wish good evening
Thank you much for your continued support Elke! I appreciate it!
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My great pleasure Ollie! You deserve more! Always very welcome!
Good afternoon Ollie and followers Worldwide Xxx 🙏🏼 ❤️ 🗺️ 🍀 🏴
Hi Lady Janet. Revisiting again with Ollie.
Good morning Janet!
@@Agapy8888 good morning!
@@Jaggededge112 Hi Rose.
@@Jaggededge112 Greetings! Hope you are having a good day Xxx 🙏🏼 ❤️ 🍀 🗺️ 🏴
I think all your videos are excellent I really enjoy them
Ah sick, I thought death by ravaging only existed in the sickest hentais, not in recorded history
Great vid. Very interesting 👍😀
Thank you so much for watching Simon!!
I heard it said that poison is a women's weapon. - Ned Stark
holy shit.... I thought you were going to say ravaged by wild dogs
took me a second to realize what you meant
what a story!
I always thought it was Nero who poisoned Britannicus, obviously I was wrong. Great video,looking forward to future videos.
Well, in a way he did. Locusta was just a hired assassin, essentially a tool for Nero to achieve his goal.
All that to crown *NERO* Emperor? By Zeus...
They were really all like that back than🤣look at the Borgias(i don't know if i wrote their name right)And he was a Pope🤣🤣lol
Well, she died like she lived. I know treachery and betrayal were a way of life in this time but it’s hard to feel remorse for someone like this. Her humanity should have influenced some of her decisions.
Welcome to Chaldea, I guess.
Mushrooms loli 😂
Some parts of this story could be an attempt of a low budget movie... but right at the end things took a turn for the worse! What a horrific death.
She was a trained assassin not a serial killer
I hope they are all in very bad place now
I feel history lessons in school should incorporate more women, good and bad.
There is an overwhelming amount of women that have been key characters in history, but we never hear anything of them.
I feel not teaching the children about them is like saying: well, women were mostly not important enough to mention.
Which, in turn, propagates misogyny and the likes.
Sorry, for the rant, but every time I have the same reaction: I’VE NEVER HEARD OF HER, WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF HER!??!?!?
As a woman, it is frustrating.
We can tell stories of great men AND women without diving headfirst into identity politics and man-hating, which is usually where this particular road leads us to.
So please be careful with that stuff, as it's more likely to turn feminism into a new kind of sexist bigotry than make men and women equals in value.
And to correct a very typical false assumption of such feminist critics of history. Reasons that men feature more prominently in history is because for reasons of societal survival, men were treated as expendable enough to send into dangerous situations that got many of them killed, the few survivors of which were written about, celebrated, and remembered for their deeds by the histories BECAUSE those deeds were usually dangerous.
In addition to their equally unique sacrifices, women had a tremendous benefit in that they were usually far safer than men by virtue of enjoying society's protection, but the consequence of that is that the relative lack of daring deeds that come from safety are less likely to be written about and remembered by the histories. Even gratuitous deaths like Locusta's (the subject of this video) we're admitted to be myths by the author who first popularized them, which is why he omitted the story from the second edition of his book.
Too many third wave feminist critics of history fall into the false assumption that women are underrepresented because of sexism. They're not.
The truth is that men and women suffered almost equally for the benefit of society's survival, but in different ways (women keep up the birth rate, while men work and fight). Women monopolize safety, while men monopolize fame. And neither privilege is more inherently valuable than the other.
The only way to pretend otherwise is by failing to control one's bias.
And simply ignoring men being the expendable ones while focusing on the fame is not going to convince me that men were the "lucky ones."
I totally agree, Mary's mother St Anne had a chapter in the bible but after the council of Nicea it was removed with all the others in the apocrypha. Women's contribution to history is important but suppressed by those with a vested interest.
That was surely really interesting.
I’d enjoy listening to things in history.
A lot of things can tell us know not
To make those mistakes.
Your channel should have hundreds of thousands of followers, but no one seems to like xcellent channels lately. Another amazing video 👍
Dark times, RIP Locusta.
Kinda feel sorry for her, but she was ruled by greed. Great vid! Can't wait for next week's.
Thank you so much for watching Michelle! I hope you have a great week!
@@historyprofiles you too!!💜
@@historyprofiles have you ever heard of the Black Hand mafia? Not much is said abt them, but they were really dangerous.
Yeah her demise is up there with the most depraved ones
What about Cantrell....BORGIA STYLE OF POISION
The gusta
I'm only here cause that guy on tiktok explained what that giraffe did
The were sooo crazy back than 🤣🤣
Aqua Tofana anyone?
Amazing video mate!
Thank you so much Tom! More coming soon!
César Néron est content de Locuste l’empoisonneuse. Il lui a donné ses becs baveux sur ses bajoues. César Néron.
César Néron est si bien content de Locuste. Il lui a donné ses becs baveux sur ses bajoues pour l’avoir à ses côtés. César Néron.
Her punishment should've been poisoning.
Great story dear❤❤👍‼
Thank you so much Marina!
@@historyprofiles thank you ❤Work is finished and weekendis there yeah 🤣hope the weather stays so nice sunny like now👍☀️🌞.You too have a wonderful weekend🙋♀️🌺☀️🌞
Does she technically count as a serial killer or is she an assassin? I think as a rule serial killers act on their own, but it sounds like Locusta poisoned as a job
Wow I never knew death by snu snu was a real thing
What a woman to test it on animals 😡
Done daily in our so called modern times
@@barbaramullins4233 yes you are right unfortunately 🤦♀️😞
@@marinakaiser7639 we know very little about the language of animals. I do know that if they could speak to us, alot of people would go into shock, alot would be killed and alot would be in prison
@@barbaramullins4233 o yes if they had some rights but we humans are also evil to other humans why should be nice to animals. We ruined all ,our Mother Earth everything. There is a cool song from a band called Omnia it is called ;I don't speak human.I think you would like it if you have time one day maybe you'll hear it.Sorry dear but i'am from Germany we have already after midnight and i must work tomorrow. It's nice to see there are still good people on this earth.👍🌺🌺🌻🌼🙋♀️❤❤
@@marinakaiser7639 Have a good night and I hope a good day at work tomorrow. I live in Virginia in the USA and what is happening to the world is unfathomable. Humans seem to be the biggest parasites on the planet. Nothing in the natural world is evil. What we think up to do to other humans, animals and the planet defy intelligence, much less a moral compass. Goodnight 😴🌛❤️🌷🌱🌄🐈🐅🐛
When in Rome...
You talk like you’re reading an unending poem lol
but not in a rude way I love ur channel man ;-;
LOL! Hope you like that ! And thank you so much!
I feel a bit nauseous, would someone be a dear and fetch me a feather for my throat?
LOL! I hope you enjoyed the video Barbara!
@@historyprofiles yes, I did. I very much enjoy learning about history. I subscribed to your channel after watching it.
Are these people thick or something
I'd definitely have to say I found this quite interesting. Idk if I would dubb her as the first "serial killer" but she definitely was one of a kind!! She really was quite fascinating....
Def not the first, but possibly the first known female serial killer.
I love this channel. So interesting and I love history. Thank you.
Thank you so much for your comment Susan! Im glad your enjoying the content! Tune in next Thursday or another video!
Omfg..wow..
Abortion is not a modern day phenomena. Abortion is probably done millions of time over. That would be the first serial killer.
It was also common practice throughout the world to expose unwanted babies.
I wish the episodes were more in depth, the people are extremely interesting, but also understand, a lot of work go into these, aaaaand I'd get to watch less content haha. So it's a catch 22... can't be selfish all the time. Love the topics, and the content. Keep up the amazing work!!!!
Didn't Lydia poison a bunch of people also? I think she got a we ay with it though. Rome seems to have hated women immensely, so I can't even feel as if she deserved to be caught.
I’m a New Subber so YES I rang that bell and tapped that like so Now I will receive notice of stories about hell o!☺️
I always read it like "Lo coos ta" in my head
This artwork is mesmerising, is the first picture a Burne Jones?
Thank you for watching Janet! I don't believe so but ill look into it and try and get back to you!
@@historyprofiles Cheers, it had a look of pre Raphaelites to me x
Quality content.
Thank you so much !
Maybe it's just the picture but in my head I hear her last words...oh what a world
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Absolutely great video
Name of fhe song around 4:30?
Brilliant video, please do more videos on Ancient Rome
Thank you so much taqi! Any recommendations?
@@historyprofiles 1.The Hadrian Wall is built. To keep out the barbarians a long wall is built across northern England, 2. Rome splits into two empires, The end of the Western Roman Empire and the fall of Ancient Rome. 3. The last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus is defeated by the German Goth Odoacer. This signals the start of the Dark Ages in Europe, 4. Constantine becomes Emperor. Constantine would convert to Christianity and Rome would become a Christian empire. Prior to this Rome persecuted the Christians, 5. Hannibal invades Italy. Hannibal leads the Carthage army in his famous crossing of the Alps to attack Rome. This is part of the Second Punic war, 6. The Teutoburg disaster
@@historyprofiles I have one: Emperor Elagabus. Think I spelt that right. Anyway, he was a complete nutter as Emperor, rivalling Caligula. Oh, and he invented the whoopie cushion.
Hey dear Ollie me as always hours to late but the stupid time difference and i had to sleep and than work and now i listen to your great story. Ach they were all poisoner back than
Ravage instead of rape, wow that is so fucked up. Ravaged is something someone does to another in passion and desire and that other is a willing recipient. Rape is forced sexual assault on a victim, thus an unwilling non consenting person. I'm outraged at how down played the fact she was raped to death was...
Shame on you
That isn’t what it means. Go read a dictionary
Your so pushed to change perceptions , female serial killer like she was a Ted Bundy or Jack the Ripper take your feminism do something original with it
Hey Tom thank you for watching, I don't get what you mean by changing perceptions or the feminism?
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Well , let's see.
Rather then man and woman , today we have the politically correct term
" PERSON". Rather then, mr. And mrs. We have Mr. and MS.
I am sorry I a was born in the dark, however it wasn't last night.
I have watched over the years the
Deliberate changes being made in
Understandings by the media .
I consider it funny somebody hasn't tryed to make Jack the Ripper
Out to be a outraged lesbian lover who was rejected and seeking Revenge .
We must Destory the patriarchy and patriarchal assumptions must we not ?
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We must Destory the patriarchy and patriarchal assumptions must we not, I think it's funny someone hasn't try paint Jack the Ripper as a rejected lesbian lover seeking revenge on women of the night.
I watched over the years how
Perceptions have been deliberately manipulated by the media. We once had , man and woman, now we have
the term " PERSON" where we once had mr. And mrs. We now have
MR and MS.
As I said over the years I have watched, we must destroy patriarchal assumptions must we not ?
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I was born in the dark, however it wasn't last night.
I understand fully the concept behind non-racist non-sexist non homophobic and being tolerant.
I have had time to figure it out,
the idea is " one human person ".
I just don't believe that was GODS
Intention, He is the master mind behind human Society, not a bunch of secualr humanist social scientist.
To render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's , doesn't include my understanding of reality.
Unreal. But in the time of Nero's reign... 😟