Ireland's First Witch: Medieval Murderer? (Part 2)

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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Myths, Folklore, Mystery, History, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Murder, Ufos, True Crime, Paranormal, Supernatural, Serial Killers

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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(Part 2/2) Anthony returns to his hometown of Kilkenny to conclude the tale of the first person to be executed for witchcraft in Ireland. Set 700 years ago in 1324, this is the story of a successful business woman called Alice Kyteler, her servant Petronilla de Meath, and a Bishop hell bent on their destruction.

Anthony Delaney tells Maddy Pelling the story.

Edited by Tomos Delargy. Produced by Freddy Chick and Charlotte Long.

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1:07.8	lies gravely ill. His body gaunt, hair gone, nails torn. To those who've seen
1:15.0	what's left of him, John bears the unmistakable signs of arsenic's silent hand. Her enemies whisper
1:22.6	that Alice, now more wealthy and powerful than ever before, and long the suspect of local suspicion,
1:29.5	has finally been found out, are dark arts exposed for all to see?
1:36.0	In the face of such evidence, Bishop Richard Dledred is determined.
1:41.6	He must bring Dame Kittler to trial and rid Colkenny of her demonic ways.
1:47.6	What an example it will set to. Not even the most powerful woman in the town is immune from the
1:53.5	church's authority. In his zealous determination, he has appealed to the King's Chancellor in Ireland,
2:00.1	invoking the authority of the Ute Inquisitionus,
2:03.3	the 1298 papal decree that mandates secular officials assist the church in its quest to root out heresy.
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