Witchcraft in Ireland

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Here is the full account of Dame Alice Kyteler of Kilkenny who was said to have poisoned three husbands and enchanted a fourth before her nefarious doings came under the notice of Richard de Ledrede the Bishop of Ossory who set an Inquisition to have her charged with sorcery. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Florence Newton a member of a colony of Puritans was placed on trial in Youghal in 1661 for having bewitched a young girl; and in 1710/11 strange happenings were recorded in Island Magee Co. Antrim. The activities of the 18th century Hell Fire Club whose members set aside a place for Satan at their dinners are described. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>That witchcraft is not in the dim and distant past is shown in the account of the Clonmel burning of 1894 when a young wife who was thought to be a 'changeling' was thrown into the fireplace and burned by her husband and other relations. In fact in 1961 week-end trippers in Island Magee accidentally discovered articles used in the Black Mass hidden in a cave.</span></p>