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Helen Duncan, Scotland’s Last Witch
by Ben Johnson
Helen Duncan & the Witchcraft Act
(A Documentary by Dr Keith Parsons)
Helen Duncan, Scotland’s Last Witch
by Ben Johnson
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Helen-Duncan-Scotlands-last-witch/Spiritualist, medium and the last person in Britain to be tried and sentenced under the 1735 Witchcraft Act.
Born in Callander in 1897, the daughter of a cabinet-maker, Helen Duncan was a show woman who travelled throughout Britain, holding regular séances during which she would produce the form of dead people by emitting a cloud-like substance – ectoplasm – from her mouth. These spirits were said to appear, talking and actually touching their relatives. .......