User:Jacob Kingston/Trial of Elly Kedward transcript

THE HISTORY OF EILÍS ABAIGEAL KEDWARD

Glengarriff, County Cork, Ireland, 1729 Eilís Abaigeal Kedward is born of an Irish mother and Welsh father. Her mother expires giving birth to her, bleeding to death.

1739 - Her father is tortured and executed by the resistance and Agrarian Hooded Revolts, his internal organs disemboweled while still alive. 10 year old Eilís is forced to watch the torture and execution while she is repeatedly raped, beaten, tortured and sodomized with bones torn from her father’s writhing body Dark is the night and cold is the ground as the young girl Eilís is left to die in the woods. She is tossed onto the gaping and shredded abdomen of her father’s disemboweled corpse. The Whitehoods impale Eilís’ body to her father’s with crossed and entwined stakes. She is assured his fading body heat will offer temporary comfort in her slow and certain death.

Discovered by a local Eremite, Eilís is rescued and returned to health in a makeshift cottage. It is under his discourse that young Eilís is exposed to the ancient tradition of Transitus Fluvii and the primal custom of Twana, where it is believed one can obtain multiple planes of reality. A period of bad weather, poor harvests, fever & famine begins. It will last for two years. It is the cipher of Transitus Fluvii that empowers the isolated two in their need for survival.

1741 – The Year of the Slaughter. The Great Frost sets in and lasts for seven weeks. The Eremite succumbs to dysentery. Roads are sprawled with the dead and of the dying, want and misery in every face. Many are buried in the fields and ditches where they perish. Three hundred thousand are dead. Barely 12 years of age and driven to madness, Eilís is discovered in the streets of Waterford and is retained for observation and medical practices at Baconsthorpe Asylum. She remains there for several years, prostituted by incumbents in return for favors.

1753 - Pregnant seven times, Eilís labors not one child. Six are lost to miscarriage the seventh is extracted during a rape by disturbed paralytics. The following month, Eilís avenges her lifetime acquired emotions of rage and anger, Slaughtering the offenders one by one with tools she assembles from careless scraps.

Fleeing the asylum, Eilís returns to the hills of Skibbereen, isolated and hunted. There she is familiar, from the days as a child under the care of the Eremite. In those hills, small piles of rocks are assembled in ceremony of each child she lost, As if to create graves of void maternity. Submerged into the cipher of Transitus Fluvii, Eilís is no longer conscious of her actions, Speaking prayers of the only customs she understands and believes throughout the days and evenings. Aberrant and delusional, Eilís creates stick figures from branches of trees in methodical fashion, screaming the torment she endured as a child impaled to her father’s decomposing body.

Secluded in the hills of Skibbereen, Eilís is discovered and apprehended by native Charlatans. Bound and tied, Eilís is taken to the dungeons of Wexford where she is repeatedly raped, tortured and left in desolate isolation for fifteen years. Void of any human contact, she scrawls Transitus Fluvii of her own blood along the damp and tenebrous walls of the undercroft. When the fire of Wexford ensues in 1768, the dungeons are consumed in flames. Burned over thirty percent of her body, Eilís struggles free through the scorching and ruinous flames, fleeing through serpentine passageways and burrows.

Eilís seizes the ability to now flee her captivity. Possessed in knowledge of Native American Twana, she swears off her Gaelic calling in denial, and uses the Anglo translation of Elisabeth Abigail Kedward. Or more commonly – Elly Kedward. With that name & stolen resources, she boards the Reliant, a sailing vessel, bound for America. Six months later, in the summer of 1769, she settles in the township of Blair, Maryland.