Throughout the moors and forests of Bretagne, outrageous legends run wild. Without doubt the most feared of them all is that of Ankou, the worker of death. A young Hélène Jegado persuaded herself that she was the reincarnation of this man. She therefore had to kill everything in her path in order to fulfil her destiny with a bloodcurdling determination and composure. After having poisoned her own mother who had nicknamed her Flower of Thunder, she ploughed through Bretagne, ruthlessly murdering anyone who had the kindness to welcome this seemingly perfect cook into their home. No one was safe; men, women, children, the very old, babies. She was so good that no one suspected her. She was eventually caught the day she attacked a former judge, an expert in criminal matters, and was guillotined on 26th February, 1852.