Mima Renard and her husband René, moved from France to Brazil behind better opportunities to live. The couple settled in the then village of São Paulo. We know little about the life of Mima, only likely, it was one of the first women to go through a trial hunting witch on Brazilian soil. Mima was notorious beauty; the young woman stood out among the other women, coming arouse some jealousy of the female population of the place where he lived. She drew attention of several local men, especially married. Shortly after his amazing success on the spot, her husband was mysteriously murdered. According to the file of the period, his tormentor was a married man who fell hopelessly by the French girl. As depended on her husband to live - like most women at the time - Mima seen in increasing misery without livelihood prospects. Thus, she appealed to many women, before and after it, turn: prostitution. The success rate among men was immediate - they were queuing to attend his bed. Such a contract would have everything to work, if not for a new murder that ruined his popularity and survival perspective. The culprit this time, just like the first, was a married man, who ended up killing one of Mima customers. The female population of hatred toward this woman - who was already great - only further increased. They then began to accuse her of practicing witchcraft to attract their husbands, prompting the local parish priest. Mima was then captured, arrested, accused of witchcraft and executed at the stake in public in the year 1692. Mima was just one of many women of her time, who refused to accept the tragic circumstances in which he lived, chasing a life worthier for you, something that clearly shocked the conservative society of the period. This design helped perpetuate the idea that empowered women or masters of their fate, were witches and worthy of fear pervaded worship
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