Witches

Helen Duncan

Fife, Scotland

The last person imprisoned under Britain's Witchcraft Act of 1735. A medium who claimed to materialise spirits of the dead, she was arrested in 1944 after apparently revealing that HMS Barham had sunk — a fact the Admiralty had not yet made public. Convicted and imprisoned, she died in 1956 shortly after a police raid on one of her séances.

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