Helen Duncan

Helen Duncan ( born November 25, 1897 in Callander, Perthshire, Scotland; † 6 December 1956) was 1944, the last in Europe condemned as a witch woman.

The Scottish housewife, a well-known fortune teller and Geisterbeschwörerin, was arrested in January 1944. This was made possible by a document emanating from the 1735 Anti- Hexereigesetz, but which presented no witchcraft as such, but the exploitation of superstition to witches for fraudulent purposes is punishable. The arrest was a " precautionary measure" of the British secret service MI5. 1944 is the woman secret military information have given up during a séance, from which they could actually know nothing. At that time, preparations were for the "D- Day" ( the Allied invasion of Normandy ) in full swing, and the counterintelligence was taking no chances. Helen Duncan was named after the witchcraft act of 1735 was sentenced to nine months in prison, with no real witchcraft but was discussed in court only the fraudulent nature of their activities. This was in the broad sense of the last witch trials in Europe.

The witchcraft act in 1951 set at the instigation of Winston Churchill out of power.