Ireland’s First Witch Hunt: The Rise and Fall of Dame Alice Kyteler

Dame Alice Kyteler, a wealthy widow with a trail of dead husbands, was accused of invoking demons and practicing dark magic, making her Ireland’s first condemned witch. Whispers of secret rituals, poisonous potions, and unholy pacts spread, fueled by the Church’s wrath and her enemies’ envy. As her servant confessed to bizarre, occult rites under torture, the trial spiraled into a macabre spectacle, cementing Kyteler’s place as a dark sorceress in Irish legend.