Marie-Josephte Corriveau, later known simply as La Corriveau, became one of early Canada’s most enduring figures of crime and legend. After the suspicious death of her second husband, Louis Dodier, authorities determined he had been murdered rather than trampled by a horse as originally claimed. Corriveau confessed under pressure and was sentenced to death by hanging. Her body was placed on public display in an iron cage, a grisly practice meant to warn others. Over time, the spectacle transformed her into a figure of myth, blamed for additional murders and remembered as a ghostly presence haunting the Quebec countryside. Her story now straddles the line between fact and folklore, rooted in tragedy and shaped by generations of fear and imagination.