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Dame Alice Kyteler (1280 – later than 1325), is said to have been the earliest person accused and condemned for witchcraft in Ireland.〔Davidson, Sharon, and John O. Ward, trans. ''The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyteler: A Contemporary Account (1324)''. Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004.〕〔Wright, Thomas, ed. ''A Contemporary Narrative of the Proceedings Against Dame Alice Kyteler, Prosecuted for Sorcery in 1324, by Richard de Ledrede, Bishop of Ossory''. London: The Camden Society, 1843.〕 She fled the country, but her servant Petronilla de Meath was flogged and burned to death at the stake on 3 November 1324. ==Life== Kyteler was born in Kyteler's House, County Kilkenny, Ireland, the only child of a Flemish family of merchants settled in Ireland since the mid-late thirteenth century.〔(Chapter 2: "Dame Alice Kyteler, the Sorceress of Kilkenny." ), ''Irish Witchcraft and Demonology'', by St. John D. Seymour, B.D. (1913)〕 She was married four times, to William Outlaw, Adam le Blund, Richard de Valle and Sir John le Poer. First husband c.1280–85 - William Outlaw, merchant and moneylender of Kilkenny Son: William Outlaw, was mayor of Kilkenny in 1305. Daughter: Rose? Second husband (by 1302) Adam Blund of Callan, moneylender Third husband (by 1309): Richard Valle, a landholder of County Tipperary. After Valle's death c.1316 Alice took proceedings against her stepson, Richard, for the recovery of her widow's dower. Fourth husband (c.1316-24) John Poer.〔Curran, Bob. ''A Bewitched Land: Ireland's Witches''. Dublin: O'Brien, 2005.〕 In 1302 she and her second husband were briefly accused of killing her first husband. Kyteler incurred local resentment because of her vast wealth and involvement in moneylending. When her fourth husband, John le Poer, fell ill in 1324, he expressed the suspicion that he was being poisoned. After his death, the children of le Poer and of her previous three husbands accused her of using poison and sorcery (''maleficarum'') against their fathers and of favouring her first-born son, William Outlaw. In addition, she and her followers were accused of: * denying the faith of Christ and the Church * cutting up animals to sacrifice to demons at crossroads * holding secret nocturnal meetings in churches to perform black magic * using sorcery and potions to control Christians * possession of a familiar, Robin Artison, a lesser demon of Satan * murder of husbands 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Kyteler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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