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Alice Kyteler: The Devil's Handmaiden In 1277, young Eithne enters service to Alice Kyteler, a merchant's wife in medieval Kilkenny. Over the next forty-seven years, she witnesses Alice marry four times, each husband dying suspiciously while enriching their widow. She observes Alice studying forbidden texts, performing nocturnal rituals, and invoking a demon named Artisson. But she also sees a brilliant businesswoman navigating a world that denies women power through any means necessary. When Bishop Richard de Ledrede arrives in 1317, he brings Continental witch-hunting methods to Ireland. His prosecution of Alice in 1324 becomes the first major witchcraft trial in Irish history-a clash between ecclesiastical and secular authority, between Continental inquisitorial procedures and English common law. Alice escapes to Flanders, but her devoted servant Petronilla de Meath becomes scapegoat, tortured into false confession and burned as Ireland's first witch-burning victim. Decades later, the elderly Eithne completes her chronicle: an unflinching examination of power, gender, survival, and the impossibly thin line between victim and villain. Was Alice a murderous witch or a woman destroyed for refusing patriarchal constraints? The chronicle refuses simple answers, preserving instead the dangerous complexity of a woman who defied every convention-and the innocent servant who paid the price.

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An Irish-born writer whose work is steeped in a profound, lifelong study of History and Mythology. The author possesses an exceptional foundation in academic disciplines, including postgraduate work in complex fields. Driven by an insatiable, autodidactic curiosity, their writing is the result of focused, personal research and decades spent exploring the world's most compelling narratives.

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