Ireland's Most Extraordinary Witch Trial

The year is 1660, and Ireland is a land scarred by war.Communities have been torn apart. Families have lost their homes, their livelihoods, and their sense of security. In a world shaped by fear, grief, and uncertainty, people search desperately for someone to blame.Into this troubled landscape steps Florence Newton — an elderly beggar, herbal healer, and outsider living in the town of Youghal. At sixty-five years old, she seems an unlikely threat. Yet within months, she will find herself at the centre of one of the most extraordinary witch trials in Irish history.The accusations against her are as bizarre as they are terrifying. A cursed kiss that supposedly unleashed a terrible affliction. A ghostly greyhound appearing in the night. Victims said to vomit horse-nails, pins, wool, and straw. A Bible thrown across a room by unseen forces. Even a prison guard who allegedly fell ill and died after Florence kissed his hand through the bars of her cell.Unlike the great witch panics that swept through entire regions, this is the story of a single woman—and a community determined to make her responsible for its suffering.www.roamingraven.co.uk