S3 Ep45: Suzy’s Simple Solutions: The Angel Makers of Narygev

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 1911 a woman named Zsuzsanna Fazekas, who would come to be called Aunt Suzy, arrived in the small village of Negyrev, Hungary. She had seemingly no past or family ties, but quickly established herself as the local midwife and confidant of the women of Negyrev. Soon, Suzy was holding court, helping the local women take care of their troubles, and bearing many secrets. Over the next decade estimated 300 people died under mysterious circumstances, and all signs pointed back to Aunt Suzy’s simple solutions.

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0:00.0	How far would you go to free yourself from a truly awful situation?
0:10.0	What if the only way out was to do the worst imaginable thing?
0:14.8	With no way out, would you resort to murder?
0:18.4	Welcome to Strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.
0:21.6	I'm a writer and an actor and an actor and a huge advocate of people being able to get out of abusive situations without having to resort to murder.
0:30.0	But I also understand why someone might feel like they've been driven to a point where they see no other way out.
0:37.0	The women of Nagy in the 19th and early 20th century would probably argue that they were driven to that point and who knows if she
0:46.1	were still alive the woman who gave them all the means might tell you it's the law of demand and supply
0:52.0	baby now let's go cautiously It's the law of demand and supply baby.
0:53.0	Now let's go cautiously, meet the angel makers of Naguerre.
0:58.0	But before we start boiling flypaper for poison, let me remind you that over on Patreon we have lots of
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1:26.5	So head on over to patreon.com slash strange and unexplained before the lady from this episode gets too mad. Women in Hungary around the turn of the 20th century had it pretty rough. I mean they had it rough for hundreds of years but we're
1:56.2	focusing on the early 20th century today. By their early teens most girls were married
2:02.1	off to fully grown adult men their parents had
2:05.2	promised them to and they had no recourse. They couldn't just be like, uh, no
2:10.2	thanks. And once they were married, they couldn't get divorced. No matter how
2:15.0	awful their marriage was and let's face it it's a safe bet that any marriage
2:19.6	between an adult man and a child who was forced to marry him is probably awful.
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