According to legend, Tillie Klimek claimed have a knack for predicting the impending deaths of those around her.
Among her predictions were the deaths of her first, second, third, and fourth husbands; the deaths of three children from a family that had given her some trouble; the deaths of several dogs in the neighborhood; and the death of her fifth husband, Anton, who was saved only because family members found him sick and had his stomach pumped.
Sure enough, his food had been poisoned with arsenic, and Klimek was arrested. She confessed to trying to kill him, and she was given a life sentence.
She was not allowed to cook for any fellow inmates in prison, either, and suddenly, her psychic powers went away.
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