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Campaign to pardon last woman prosecuted for witchcraft in 1944 - Mirror.co.uk

A campaign has been launched to pardon the last British woman prosecuted for being a witch . Helen Duncan was jailed for nine months in 1944 under the 1735 Witchcraft Act. The Scottish mother-of-six was locked up after she had a 'vision' about the ...

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