One of the last criminal trials using the 1735 Witchcraft Act was, improbably, in London in 1944. The accused was Helen Duncan, a middle-aged Scotswoman. This i
On March 23, 1944, as the allied forces prepared for D-Day, Britain's most famous psychic, Helen Duncan-“Nell” to her family-stood in the dock of Britain's
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A gripping story of a family tragedy brought about by witch-hunting in Puritan New England that combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology an