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	Battle of Prestonpans [1745] Heritage Trust
		Helen Duncan was born in Callender on November 26, 1897.
		The prosecution and conviction of Helen Duncan under the Witchcraft Act for 'pretending to be a witch' is clearly as much of an injustice as those of the 16th and 17th century – although it did not of course carry a death sentence.
		The remainder of Helen Duncan's life and the lives of her descendants have been tainted not least in the media by the verdict which was widely regarded as a conviction 'for' witchcraft.
	www.prestoungrange.org /helenduncan (773 words)

	The Helen Duncan Story, Clan Duncan Society - Scotland UK
		Helen was born in Callander, a small Scottish town on the 25th of November 1897 the daughter of a master cabinet maker.
		Under this ancient rune Helen Duncan and her innocent sitters were accused of pretending 'to exercise or use human conjuration that through the agency of Helen Duncan spirits of deceased dead persons should appear to be present'.
		Helen Duncan, mother of nine and part time bleach factory employee was considered a risk and they wanted her out of the way when the Allies struck.
	www.clan-duncan.co.uk /hduncan.html (2772 words)

	The OFFICIAL Helen Duncan Web Site
		Her name was Helen Duncan and in every respect but one she was just a normal housewife and mother of six.
		Mrs Duncan was a Spiritualist Materialisation Medium through whose ample body milky ectoplasm flowed and formed into complete human figures which could walk and talk and greet their living relatives with intimate secrets known only within their families.
		Helen is often remembered as the victim of the "last witch trial" or as a martyr for Spiritualism, but the simple truth is: she is a beacon of light, letting her honor and leadership shine through the fog of doubts and fear.
	hic4.kazserv.com /~alc01/HD (457 words)

	Helen Duncan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Duncan was born in Callander, Perthshire, northwest of Stirling, in November, 1897.
		Duncan's apologists have later claimed that the verdict was not "guilty" but the peculiar Scottish verdict of not proven.
		Duncan was however, barred by the Judge from demonstrating her alleged powers as part of her defence against being fraudulent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Helen_Duncan (568 words)

	HELEN DUNCAN, Superb Materialisation Medium
		Helen Victoria Duncan was born on November 25th 1898, and passed into the spirit world on December 6th 1956, five weeks after the police injured her when she was arrested in a state of deep trance during one of her materialisation seances.
		Helen Duncan was a genuine and exceptionally-gifted materialisation medium in whose presence the so-called 'dead' reappeared to their love ones temporary physical forms; and spoke with them and embraced them.
		Helen even offered to hold a seance in the courtroom under strict test conditions, which would have proved that her abilities were indeed genuine, but this request was denied by the Judge.
	website.lineone.net /~enlightenment/helen_duncan.htm (539 words)

	The Voice Box \| Seeking to Establish Knowledge and Understanding
		Under this old act, Helen and her three sitters were accused of pending "to exercise or use human conjuration that through the agency of Helen Duncan spirits of deceased dead persons should appear present".
		Helen and her co-defendants were found guilty of conspiriacy to contravene the ancient 1735 Witchcraft Act, but not guilty on all other charges.
		The medium was Helen Duncan, and in their ignorance the police had committed the worst possible crime involving physical phenomena, that of a medium in trance never being touched.
	www.the-voice-box.com /helenduncan.htm (1620 words)

	BBC - History - Scottish History
		Helen Duncan was born in Callender on the 25th November 1897.
		On the 19th January 1944, one of Helen’s séances was interrupted by the loud blast of a whistle coming from a plain-clothes policeman and a naval lieutenant.
		Helen Duncan was released from prison on the 22nd September 1944.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/scottishhistory/modern/oddities_modern.shtml (687 words)

	Helen Duncan
		Helen became known as Hellish Nell, not because of her psychic abilities, but her behaviour, she was said to be noisy and boisterous child.
		Helen was prepared to demonstrate her abilities as a medium, the prosecution refused.
		Mrs Duncan, a Scotswoman who travelled the country holding seances, was one of Britain's best-known mediums, reputedly numbering Winston Churchill and George VI among her clients, when she was arrested in January 1944 by two naval officers at a seance in Portsmouth.
	www.spiritencounters.co.uk /helenduncan.html (2645 words)

	VICTOR ZAMMIT -- The Book - 11. Helen Duncan
		Helen Duncan was a most magnificent materialization medium from Scotland and one of the most important women in psychic history.
		Helen Duncan was arrested in January 1944, charged initially with vagrancy and later with a trumped up charge of fraudulent mediumship and sentenced to nine months in jail.
		Duncan had seen her close up at a range of 18 inches and they had talked of domestic matters including a proposed emigration to Canada that they had previously kept secret.
	www.victorzammit.com /book/4thedition/chapter11.html (1814 words)

	Helen Duncan
		Helen was born in Callander, a small Scottish town on the 25th of November 1897 the daughter of a master cabinet maker.
		Under this ancient rune Helen Duncan and her innocent sitters wer accused of pretending 'to exercise or use human conjuration that through the agency of Helen Duncan spirits of deceased dead persons should appear to be present'.
		Helen Duncan, mother of nine and part time bleach factory employee was considered a risk and they wanted her out of the way when the Allies struck.
	www.helenduncan.org.uk /Duncan.htm (2984 words)

	The Reluctant Pixie Poole
		Duncan claimed that it was her 1954 reciting of Blake's "Song's of Innocence and Experience" at a poetry reading that changed the direction of his entire sense of poetics.
		Helen at one time had a job at a jewelry carving store, sorting on her hands and knees the gold and diamond flecks out of dust and cockroach shells, while Pat was signed up with a secretary's temporary agency.
		Helen Adam was the passer-on of the knowledge and tradition of forms, that, like the tales of transformation in so many of her ballads, adjusts its significance from antiquity into a contemporary usefulness.
	wings.buffalo.edu /epc/authors/prevallet/adam.html (2932 words)

	Centre Christian Spiritualist Church - Helen Duncan's War-time Seances
		MRS DUNCAN gave innumerable séances throughout her life, and these to sitters from all over the world, until that mischievously lethal police raid at her last séance which was to bring a premature end to her earthly life.
		Mrs Duncan entered the room only to be whisked away to an adjoining room where several of the female sitters watched her undress and where she was examined to confirm that no possible body cavity had been used to hide any false evidence.
		As ever Mrs Duncan took her seat and, after she had fallen into trance, the curtains were drawn and within a few minutes a billow of ectoplasm began to issue from behind the curtains.
	spiritualism.org.au /helenduncan/seance.html (2360 words)

	Helen Duncan
		Helen Duncan, a simple Scottish housewife, who was forced to serve time in London's notorious Victorian Holloway women's prison for the appalling "crime" of holding physical phenomena seances - many months which took a great toll on her health and contributed to her own premature earthly demise.
		Mrs Duncan was married to a cabinet maker and had a family of six children ranging from 18-26 and she had been visiting Portsmouth for some five years.
		Helen earned a lot of money; especially when she travelled to Porthsmouth; putting herself in a seance room with only a faint red light; putting on a cloth and role playing the spiritualist, who probably used stuff called 'cheese cloth' (she called it 'ectoplasm') to give the people the impression of creating spooks.
	www.9types.com /movieboard/messages/7284.html (5356 words)

	The OFFICIAL Helen Duncan Web Site
		Her name was Helen Duncan and in every respect but one she was just a normal housewife and mother of six.
		Duncan was a Spiritualist Materialisation Medium through whose ample body, milky ectoplasm flowed and formed into complete human figures, which could walk and talk and greet their living relatives with intimate secrets known only within their families.
		Helen is often remembered as the victim of the "last witch trial" or as a martyr for Spiritualism, but the simple truth is: she is a beacon of light, letting her honour and leadership shine through the fog of doubts and fear.
	www.helenduncan.org.uk (448 words)

	The history of Scotland - Helen Duncan, the last person convicted of Witchcraft in Britain
		Born in Callander in 1897, the daughter of a cabinet-maker, Helen Duncan was a show woman who travelled throughout Britain, holding regular séances during which she would produce the forms of dead people by emitting a cloud-like substance - ectoplasm from her mouth.
		In one of the most sensational episodes in wartime Britain, Duncan was eventually brought to trial at the Old Bailey in London and became the last person to be prosecuted under the Witchcraft Act of 1735, which had not been used for more than a century.
		Helen Duncan was released from prison on the 22nd September 1944.
	www.historic-uk.com /HistoryUK/Scotland-History/HelenDuncan.htm (494 words)

	Politics Central: Glenn & Helen Show (Archive)
		The Glenn and Helen Show: Bob Levy on the Supreme Court and the DC Gun Ban
		Helen couldn’t make it — it was a bit late for her — but I caught up with milblogger Scott Koenig, better known as Smash, when he passed through Knoxville last week.
		HELEN: He’ll talk about surveillance, whether America should take a more European approach to terror, why the FBI isn’t up to the job of fighting terror, and more.
	politicscentral.com /show/glenn_helen_show (9480 words)

	The Truth about the Helen Duncan Story
		While we have no way to determine how many people Helen gave messages to while she was alive, we know that she has reached out to over 13 million people.
		Helen has been found by a Court of law to be a REAL MEDIUM with actual messages.
		Helen's trial and imprisonment was not faked, but real torture to her.
	www.helenduncan.org.uk /message.html (817 words)

	Helen Duncan Spiritualist physical medium
		Helen Duncan who was born in Callander in Scotland in 1897 and was to become one of the most maligned physical mediums of the 20th Century and also one of the most magnificent.
		Helen Duncan's crime was that she pretended to be a medium and that mediumship did not exist; the Witchcraft Act attested to this so-called fact.
		The trial was a farce with the strangest allegations being made against Helen Duncan, especially her ability to swallow and then regurgitate butter-muslin which was purported to be the animated spirit forms that moved around the room and who spoke and touched their loved ones.
	www.psychics.co.uk /psychics/helenduncan.html (450 words)

	Helen Duncan
		Helen is a professional demographer, and is currently Secretary and Treasurer of the Qld branch of the Migration Institute of Australia.
		She is one of twelve authors of the Migration Institute of Australia Entry Level Migration Law course, and regularly presents Continuing Professional Development subjects to agents, as well as acting as a mentor to a number of less experienced agents.
		Having moved herself and her family several times between countries, Helen also understands the anxieties and sensitivities that accompany an international move.
	www.mia.org.au /profiles/duncan.htm (170 words)

	Helen Duncan from Harry Price's 'Psychic Case Book'
		Duncan across the Border to London to exhibit her powers to the faithful at one of the spiritualist societies.
		Duncan's chief "control." "Albert" is supposed to be the spirit of a Dundee pattern-maker who emigrated to Sydney, N.S.W. "Albert" had a lot to say, and spoke with a drawl.
		Duncan was brought up and discussed at the Annual General Meeting of the Spiritualists' National Union (the governing body in Great Britain), held at Doncaster on July 1st, 1933, and a vote of confidence in the medium was carried by fifty-seven votes to two.
	www.harryprice.co.uk /Seance/Duncan/leaves-duncan.htm (3742 words)

	Who is Helen Duncan ? :: Beyondtheveil.co.uk :: Spiritual website offering chat rooms, messages boards, healing, free ...
		Helen was taken to court and her defence offered to have Helen demonstrate her gift by entering trance mode but the prosecution refused this.
		Helen had promised the courts that she would not carry out any further séances however her drive to be of service to those who are grieving spurred her on and she travelled widely over the country providing private demonstrations of physical mediumship to invited guests.
		Helen was manhandled during the disturbance and as a result received two-second degree burns to her tummy.
	www.beyondtheveil.co.uk /html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=24&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0&POSTNUKESID=afbaec5e156a23ca01cb4833058c72fb (934 words)

	Unhappy medium: the life and trial of 'hellish Nell' (I) \| LRB essay \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Though Helen was a well-known medium who commanded a troop of followers, her deceptions on this occasion were no more florid, distasteful or ludicrous than the tricks she had been getting away with for years.
		He would not like to think that, like some spirit guide made of papier-mâché, he is now Helen's announcer, her mouthpiece, and that his dematerialisation amounts to crouching in the half-light behind a torn curtain on a rickety rail.
		Helen's pregnancies were perilous, and some of her children had birth defects.
	books.guardian.co.uk /lrb/articles/0,6109,485358,00.html (2334 words)

	FarShores.org ParaDimensions Article: 1944: England's Last Witch Trial
		Helen, as was usual in seances of this kind, sat in a cabinet-type structure behind a curtain.
		Mrs Duncan was thrusting a white cloth which she appeared to be holding in front of her down towards the floor.
		As a medium, Helen Duncan was originally arrested for the catch-all charge of vagrancy but as she came up for trial at the Old Bailey, the police suddenly added the charge of witchcraft.
	farshores.org /witch.htm (1160 words)

	Helen Duncan 'The Last Witch' Set To Win Posthumous Pardon
		In 1944, Duncan, a medium, was found guilty in a seven-day trial at the Old Bailey of offences under the Witchcraft Act of 1735 and jailed for nine months for "pretending to raise spirits of the dead".
		Duncan told a woman in the audience that her Royal Navy husband wanted to speak to her, but the shocked woman insisted that he was not dead.
		Duncan was nevertheless found guilty and sent to Holloway prison, where the warders were said to have queued up for seances with her.
	www.rense.com /general8/pardon.htm (618 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Edinburgh - Tribute to Britain's last 'witch' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But now Helen Duncan is to receive a special mention in a ceremony to remember 81 people from Prestonpans who were killed during the witchcraft trials of the 16th and 17th century.
		Ms Duncan, who lived in Niddrie at the time but travelled the country putting on seances for relatives, was convicted in 1944 under the 1735 Witchcraft Act for "pretending to raise the spirits of the dead".
		Helen Duncan was born in Callender on November 26, 1897.
	news.scotsman.com /edinburgh.cfm?id=1597372006 (3529 words)

	Helen Duncan (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She worked as a teacher in a number of different cities.
		As Duncan was the next-ranked MP on the Labour Party list, she entered Parliament in White's place.
		In the 1999 election and the 2002 election, Duncan remained in Parliament as a list MP, also unsuccessfully contesting the North Shore seat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Helen_Duncan_(New_Zealand) (173 words)

	Helen Duncan: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Helen Duncan's supporters assert that the government of the day believed her work posed a real threat to national security, and it was for this reason alone that she was arrested - although charged under the Vagrancy Act - at Portsmouth.
		Duncan' was dubbed 'the trial of the century' by the press, drawing large crowds.
		The judge and jury were not impressed: Helen Duncan, the last person to be condemned under the Witchcraft Act, was sentenced to nine months in the brutal Holloway Prison, together with three 'accomplices'.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Duncan_Helen_290830922.htm (1332 words)

	Mervyn Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Helen was a born in Scotland in a small town called Callander.
		Helen Duncan was sent to trail at the old Baily in London highest criminal court where she was sentenced to nine month in prism in Halloway.
		Much is owed to Helen Duncan by modern Spiritualists as trough her in devours the ancient witchcraft law was changed to fraudulent mediums act.
	www.cheroki.com /eng/interesting2.htm (224 words)

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