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

r3nu4l · 2006-12-06 12:50:29

Thought you folk might be interested in this :) More info here

06-12-2006 12:50pm

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Thought you folk might be interested in this

More info here

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#2 29-12-2006 12:08pm

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Interesting stuff that is!

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#3 30-12-2006 7:37am

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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

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#4 03-01-2007 7:31pm

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Helen Duncan wasn't a witch, but the case was important to witches since it led to the 1735 Witchcraft Act being repealed, which was in turn influential in Gardner's publishing his non-fiction works.

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#5 03-01-2007 8:17pm

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

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#6 03-01-2007 8:24pm

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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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