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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.
Elizabeth Ann Duncan (born Hazel Lucille Sinclaira Nigh [1] (April 16, 1904 [2] in Kansas City, Missouri [3] – August 8, 1962) was an American murderer. She was convicted of orchestrating the murder of her daughter-in-law in 1958.
Duncan had also used dolls' heads and masks as ectoplasm. [45] Mediums would also cut pictures from magazines and stick them to the cheesecloth to pretend they were spirits of the dead. [ 46 ] Another researcher, C. D. Broad , wrote that ectoplasm in many cases had proven to be composed of home material such as butter-muslin, and that there was ...
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 Duncan, considered the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735, came to the attention of the authorities after claiming to have contacted the spirit of a sailor of Barham, at the time when the ship's sinking was being hidden from the general public.
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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 Smart (nee Don-Duncan; 9 June 1981 – 12 August 2023) [1] was an English competitive swimmer and backstroke specialist. [2] Swimming career.