OPENING QUESTIONS
Veiling my head, grabbing my yes-and-no stones and invoking my Usual Suspects (the Gods, the Ancestors, the Nature Spirits, my Spirit Guides, and my own Higher Self), I began:
Dame Alice Kyteler, a 13th/14th century woman in Ireland, was accused of practicing witchcraft. Did Alice Kyteler practice any magic at all?
YES
Did Dame Alice Kyteler murder any of her husbands?
YES
Did she murder them by poisoning them?
NO
Did she murder them by magic?
NO
Did she murder them by praying for their deaths?
NO
Did she murder them by using a tool or weapon of some sort?
WRONG QUESTION
Were they stabbed?
NO
Did they die of blunt-force trauma?
WRONG QUESTION
Did she murder them by using an everyday sort of thing, like a bedsheet or a pillow?
NO
Did she murder any of her husbands by arranging for an unfortunate accident?
NO
Did her son, William Outlawe Jr., have any part in the deaths of any of his stepfathers?
NO
Did William Outlawe Jr. know that his mother had murdered any of her husbands?
YES