THE LAST PHASE OF DAME ALICE KYTELER’S LIFE
I want to get an idea of how long Dame Alice Kyteler lived after she fled Ireland for England. Did she live at least:
-another three years? WRONG QUESTION
-another five years? YES
-another seven years? NO
-another six years? YES
DAME ALICE KYTELER’S DEATH
Did Dame Alice Kyteler herself die of natural causes?
NO
Was she deliberately murdered?
YES
Was she murdered by a servant?
NO
Was she murdered by a neighbor?
YES
Was it for money?
WRONG QUESTION/NO (finger landed on both stones)
Was her murder the end-result of a dispute with said neighbor?
NO
Was the motive for murder, simply animosity?
YES
Did her murder have anything to do with the reason for which she fled Ireland?
WRONG QUESTION/NO
Did her murderer simply not like Irish people?
WRONG QUESTION
Did her murderer know what Dame Alice was notorious for in Ireland, and simply not want to allow that woman to live any longer?
NO
Was it simply a personality-clash?
NO
Did Dame Alice do something which her murderer STRONGLY disliked?
YES
So Dame Alice was murdered strictly to remove an irritant from the murderer’s life?
YES
Was it a property dispute?
YES
I want to get into the specifics of how Dame Alice Kyteler was killed.
Was Dame Alice stabbed to death?
YES
Were she and the neighbor actively engaged in arguing at the time of the murder?
WRONG QUESTION
Did the neighbor steal into her house and murder her at night?
WRONG QUESTION
Did the neighbor who murdered her suffer any legal penalty for the murder?
NO
Was someone else punished for the crime?
WRONG QUESTION
Did Dame Alice Kyteler’s murder simply go un-punished?
NO
Did the neighbor with whom Dame Alice was having a property dispute hire someone to commit the murder?
WRONG QUESTION
Just so I’m a little-more-clear about the neighbor with whom she had a property dispute, and with whom she was quarrelling, was this neighbor who murdered her a man?
NO
The yes-and-no stones didn’t seem to want to get into any more specifics about Dame Alice’s death, only that she was killed in a property dispute with a woman-neighbor, and the neighbor suffered no legal penalty for it. An ironic end for Dame Alice Kyteler, given that the yes-and-no stones indicate she herself committed a murder, and suffered no legal penalty for it.