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[BBC News] Calls to pardon 'UK's last witch'

  • 06-12-2006 01:50PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,388 ✭✭✭✭


    Thought you folk might be interested in this :)

    More info here


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 981 ✭✭✭tj-music.com


    Interesting stuff that is!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Carrigart Exile


    r3nu4l wrote:
    Thought you folk might be interested in this :)

    More info here

    The UK's last witch, clearly not I am married to her:mad:

    Okay, sorry, just a wee joke


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    The campaign for her pardon has been happening for some time. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/helenduncan/ being a website associated with the campaign.

    Of course Helen Duncan wasn't a witch, but the case was important to witches since it led to the 1735 Witchcraft Act being repealed, which was in turn influential in Gardner's publishing his non-fiction works.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,926 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I can not believe people were being tried under the witchcraft act up until 1944. What the hell? That is crazy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    The funny thing is that the majority of people working in whitehall during the war on remote viewing and astral travel ect could have been tried under that very act.


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