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Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan (née MacFarlane, 25 November 1897 – 6 December 1956) was a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735 (9 Geo. 2. c. c.
Helen Margaret Duncan (May 3, 1910 – August 14, 1971) was a geologist and paleontologist with the United States Geological Survey from 1945 to 1971, where she ...
Helen Smart (nee Don-Duncan; 9 June 1981 – 12 August 2023) [1] was an English competitive swimmer and backstroke specialist. [2] Swimming career.
Helen Duncan, Lady Duncan (née Helen Julia Pfizer) in 1888 [129] [130] Doña María Luisa La Farge Binsse de Saint-Victor de Ágreda May, Countess de Casa de Ágreda ( née Marie Louise La Farge , previously Lorillard, aka Countess de Agreda) on 4 February 1889 [ 131 ] [ 132 ]
Yorke's case demonstrated that, following the earlier trial of Helen Duncan, the Director of Public Prosecutions had decided that the Witchcraft Act 1735 was still useful in dealing with cases involving mediums. Although the Act was used as a threat in several subsequent cases, the last in 1950, this was the last in which someone was actually ...
Helen Duncan (1897–1956) was a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the British Witchcraft Act 1735 (9 Geo. 2. c. 5). Helen Duncan may also refer to: Helen Duncan (politician) (1941–2007), member of the New Zealand House of Representatives; Helen M. Duncan (1910–1971), United States geologist and paleontologist
Price exposed medium Helen Duncan's fraudulent techniques by proving, through analysis of a sample of ectoplasm produced by Duncan, that it was cheesecloth that she had swallowed and regurgitated. [44] Duncan had also used dolls' heads and masks as ectoplasm. [45]
She was the last woman to be executed in California before the United States Supreme Court suspended the death penalty under Furman v. Georgia. [4] Duncan was convicted of hiring 24-year-old Augustine Baldonado and 23-year-old Luis Moya to murder her daughter-in-law, Olga Duncan, who was seven months pregnant at the time. [5]