Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/irishwitchcraftd00seymrich Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). 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--THE FOURTH EARL OF DESMOND--JAMES I AND THE IRISH PROPHETESS--A SORCERY ACCUSATION OF 1447-- WITCHCRAFT TRIALS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY--STATUTES DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT--EYE-BITERS--THE ENCHANTED EARL OF DESMOND 46 CHAPTER IV A.D. 1606-1656 A CLERICAL WIZARD--WITCHCRAFT CURED BY A RELIC--RAISING THE DEVIL IN IRELAND--HOW HE WAS CHEATED BY A DOCTOR OF DIVINITY--STEWART AND THE FAIRIES--REV. ROBERT BLAIR AND THE MAN POSSESSED WITH A DEVIL--STRANGE OCCURRENCES NEAR LIMERICK--APPARITIONS OF MURDERED PEOPLE AT PORTADOWN-- CHARMED LIVES--VISIONS AND PORTENTS--PETITION OF A BEWITCHED ANTRIM MAN IN ENGLAND--ARCHBISHOP USSHER'S PROPHECIES--MR. BROWNE AND THE LOCKED CHEST 77 CHAPTER V A.D. 1661 FLORENCE NEWTON, THE WITCH OF YOUGHAL 105 CHAPTER VI A.D. 1662-1686 THE DEVIL AT DAMERVILLE--AND AT BALLINAGARDE--TAVERNER AND HADDOCK'S GHOST--HUNTER AND THE GHOSTLY OLD WOMAN--A WITCH RESCUED BY THE DEVIL--DR. WILLIAMS AND THE HAUNTED HOUSE IN DUBLIN--APPARITIONS SEEN IN THE AIR IN CO. TIPPERARY--A CLERGYMAN AND HIS WIFE BEWITCHED TO DEATH-- BEWITCHING OF MR. MOOR--THE FAIRY-POSSESSED BUTLER--A GHOST INSTIGATES A PROSECUTION--SUPPOSED WITCHCRAFT IN CO. CORK--THE DEVIL AMONG THE QUAKERS 132 CHAPTER VII A.D. 1688 AN IRISH-AMERICAN WITCH 176 CHAPTER VIII A.D. 1689-1720 PORTENT ON ENTRY OF JAMES II--WITCHCRAFT IN CO. ANTRIM-- TRADITIONAL VERSION OF SAME--EVENTS PRECEDING THE ISLAND-MAGEE WITCH-TRIAL--THE TRIAL ITSELF--DR. FRANCIS HUTCHINSON 194 CHAPTER IX A.D. 1807 TO PRESENT DAY