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TIL about Magdalena Solis, a serial killer in Mexico who in the early 1960s convinced the illiterate and poor town of Yerba Buena that she was the reincarnation of an Inca Goddess known as "The High Priestess of Blood" she partook in piking members of the town while alive and drinking their blood.

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