Great-gran is NOT a witch!

[icymist]

January 21, 2007
LONDON -- She's 72 and a great-grandmother, but she still remembers how her classmates labeled her ''witch-spawn'' and ''evil eye'' -- because her grandmother was one of the last people jailed in Britain over witchcraft charges.
At the height of World War II, medium Helen Duncan was convicted under an 18th-century anti-witchcraft law and jailed by authorities who accused her of compromising Britain's safety.

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In the 1940s, Duncan, who died in 1955, was a well-known medium and her clients reportedly included Winston Churchill and King George VI.

But she ran into trouble after reportedly telling the parents of a missing sailor that their son had gone down on the HMS Barham, a ship whose 1941 loss had not yet been reported. Jittery military police broke into a seance and charged her with ''pretending to be a witch."

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[Ilsa]

1. I don't get here as often, Icymist, but I really enjoy

the articles you've posted.

I don't know what it is exactly, but i feel very comfortable in this forum, even though I am not a Pagan or Wiccan. I guess it is because I find some of the beliefs practical and beautiful. Maybe there is something pagan "incoded" in my mind and body going back to ancient times and my Irish and Scottish ancestors.