Veneno de mujer

In its own etymology, the venom (venesmon) informs us that it is an instrument of Venus to achieve love. But the venific does not always report only beneficial effects, but also death. It happens as with the preparations of Helena, born of Zeus, sometimes they are mortal, and others, healthy. From the tradition of the Visha Kanyas of India, the poisoner is understood as a singular murderer, whose characteristic notes separate her from the rest of the criminals, although they also share others that are related. Even so, the toxic woman constitutes a separate category within the concept of "murderer", and also has no parallel in the male world, in the same way that some male murderers do not have a corresponding reflection among women. Arsenic, opium, belladonna or hemlock; black widows, anti-husbands, toxic precocious, jealous... They kill. The poison kills. And death has many faces.