When the battleship Barham was torpedoed by the Germans in November 1941, with the loss of over 800 lives, the Admiralty delayed announcing the news to maintain morale. But the secrecy was ended within a few days when medium Helen Duncan told a couple during a seance that their son, a sailor on the ship, had appeared from the spirit world to tell them it had sunk. In one of the most bizarre acts of the Second World War, Mrs Duncan was accused of leaking military secrets - and became the last woman jailed as a witch in the UK. Now campaigners want an official pardon for theScots-born mother of six, who spent nine months in Holloway Prison, north London.
A group of mediums have handed a petition to the Scottish Parliament, calling on it to lobby Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. Campaigner Roberta Gordon, from Gullane, East Lothian, said: "At the time the country was paranoid about security and the evidence used against her wasn"t accurate. "It would take away the stigma from her granddaughters and the great-grandsons." Mrs Duncan was one of Britain"s best-known mediums. During her seances she produced "ectoplasm" - a stringy white substance that is supposed to give form to spirits and allow them to communicate. Paranormal investigators denounced her as a fraud who usedcheesecloth and egg whites, but her family insist she was genuine, "an ordinary woman with a gift". Despite the controversy, Mrs Duncan reputedly numbered Winston Churchill and George VI among her clients. Churchill denounced the case against her as "obsolete tomfoolery" and visited her in prison. The Barham, a 29,000-ton battleship, was hit by three German torpedoes in the Mediterranean on November 25, 1941.
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history between cultures and generations. The definition seems to slide in
every way at once thus seemingly muddling its clarity. Many cultures and
societies and sub-cultures have adopted the term "necromancy" as the title of
their practice, which is not necessarily wrong, but it has caused confusion
for the etymologically-minded who tend to be quick to point a finger at things
which do not fit the strict definition of ...Forgotten WICCAN Satanic roots?
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5000 - 800 BCE: In the popular
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This was also the accepted academic orthodoxy until the 1930's, when it was
decided that Celtic civilisation did not reach Britain until 500 BCE, that
Druids were a purely Celtic priesthood, and that they could not, therefore, have
had any connection with megalithic st...Defining witchcraft
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When the battleship Barham was torpedoed by the Germans in November 1941, with the loss of over 800 lives, the Admiralty delayed announcing the news to maintain morale. But the secrecy was ended within a few days when medium Helen Duncan told a couple during a seance that their son, a sailor on the ship, had appeared from the spirit world to tell them it had sunk. In one of the most bizarre acts of the Second World War, Mrs Duncan was accused of leaking military secrets - and became the last woman jailed as a witch in the UK. Now campaigners want an official pardon for theScots-born mother of six, who spent nine months in Holloway Prison, north London. 
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A Brief History of the Methods of Necromancy
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History of the Druids
Defining witchcraft
US town escapes 666 phone prefix
'Witches' face fine in Tajikistan
Judge rules in favour of Harry Potter
