A Woman to Know: Petronilla de Meath
... and indeed in all the realm of the King of England there was none more skilled or equal to her in this art. — Richard Ledrede
(image credit: Museum of Witchcraft in Cornwall)
Poor Petronilla.
She was the Irish maid of Dame Alice Kyteller, a wealthy noblewoman who was accused of sorcery during the early European witchcraft trials. Alice and her househ…
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