Vincent said that Helen Duncan slipped into a trance-like state before the ectoplasm poured from her mouth. His dead wife then materialised from the ectoplasmic matter and asked Vincent and his ...

Helen MacFarlane Duncan was a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the British Witchcraft Act of 1735. During her act, seen here, she would produce ectoplasm from ...

Scot Helen Duncan was jailed for witchcraft in 1944. ... From ectoplasm to 'dead' aunts - the real story of Scotland's last convicted witch Scot Helen Duncan was jailed for witchcraft in 1944.

A British high court last week upheld the conviction of a Scotswoman charged with practicing witchcraft. To jail for nine months, technically as a violator of a 1735 law forbidding ...

Medium Helen Duncan was convicted under the 18th century Witchcraft Act in January 1944 after being arrested at a seance in Plymouth. ... He took photos of Duncan's supposed 'ectoplasm' ...

Ghostly ‘ectoplasm’ said to have been produced by ‘Britain’s last witch’ during a séance is to go on display at Cambridge University Library as supporters call for her posthumous pardon.

Nellie Duncan's missives from the other side caused a wartime scandal – leading to a trial Churchill dubbed ‘obsolete tomfoolery’ Jump to content UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

Helen Duncan, also known as Hellish Nell, photographed by a psychic investigator. The "ectoplasm" was later derided as fake and made from cheesecloth.

Helen Duncan, fraudulent medium or gifted psychic and spiritualist martyr, depending on your point of view, died in 1956, ... One constable made a grab at the "ectoplasm", ...

Duncan initially faced fairly minor charges relating to fortune-telling, astrology and spiritualism under the section 4 of the Vagrancy Act of 1824, according to History Hit, but it was her 1941 ...

Jailed: The last woman to be convicted of witchcraft in Britain was Helen Duncan, pictured here with "ectoplasm" (Image: Rex) Vincent Woodcock was one man who said Helen Duncan changed his life.