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IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND
DEMONOLOGY
IRISH
WITCHCRAFT AND
DEMONOLOGY
BY
ST. JOHN D. SEYMOUR, B.D.
AUTHOR OF
“THE DIOCESE OF EMLY,”
ETC.
DUBLIN
HODGES, FIGGIS & CO. Ltd.
104 GRAFTON STREET
LONDON
HUMPHREY MILFORD
AMEN CORNER, E.C.
1913
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| CHAPTER I | |
| Some remarks on witchcraft in Ireland | 1 |
| CHAPTER II A.D. 1324 | |
| Dame Alice Kyteler, the Sorceress of Kilkenny | 25 |
| CHAPTER III A.D. 1223-1583 | |
| The Kyteler Case and its surroundings of sorcery and heresy—Michael Scot—TheFourth Earl of Desmond—James I and the Irish Prophetess—A sorcery accusation of 1447—Witchcraft trialsin the sixteenth century—Statutes dealing with the subject—Eye-biters—The enchanted Earl of Desmond | 46 |
| [Pg vi] | |
| CHAPTER IV A.D. 1606-1656 | |
| A clerical wizard—Witchcraft cured by a relic—Raising the Devil in Ireland—Howhe was cheated by a Doctor of Divinity—Stewart and the Fairies—Rev. Robert Blair and the Man possessed with a Devil—Strangeoccurrences near Limerick—Apparitions of murdered people at Portadown—Charmed lives—Visions and portents—Petitionof a bewitched Antrim man in England—Archbishop Ussher’s prophecies—Mr. Browne and the locked chest | 77 |
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