A Bewitched Land: Ireland’s Witches.
Author: CURRAN, Bob.
Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2005. 189 pages. Paperback.
How did Dame Alice Kyteler escape being burnt as a witch?
Were Biddy Early and Moll Anthony witches, healers or wise women?
And was Bridget Cleary changeling, witch or victim?
Witch trials in the European or American sense were not common in Ireland although they did occur. In this book the stories of four remarkable court cases that took place between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries are told; other chapters chronicle the extraordinary lives of individuals deemed to be practitioners of the black arts — hedge witches, sorcerers and sinister characters. The book gives a unique insight into the fascinating overlap between witch belief and the vast range of fairy lore that held sway for many centuries throughout the land.
CONTENTS:-
Introduction
WITCHCRAFT TRIALS IN IRELAND
Dame Alice Kyteler
THE KILKENNY SORCERESS (1324)
Florence Newton
THE WITCH OF YOUGHAL (1661)
The Islandmagee Witches
THE DEVIL’S COVEN IN EAST ANTRIM (1711)
Bridget Cleary
`THE CLONMEL WITCH BURNING’ (1895)
HEDGE WITCHES AND WISE WOMEN
Biddy Early
THE WISE WOMAN OF CLARE
Moll Anthony
THE WITCH OF THE RED HILLS
SORCERERS AND SINISTER CHARACTERS
Alexander Colville
THE DEVIL DOCTOR
Some Minor Irish Witches and Wizards
ISBN: 0862788994
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