A Scottish medium who was the last person in Britain to be tried for witchcraft is to be the subject of a new feature film. Helen Duncan, a mother of six from Callander, Stirlingshire, was jailed in 1944 under the 1735 Witchcraft Act after she said that she had a vision of the sinking of a Royal Navy vessel.
Duncan, who died aged 59 in Edinburgh in 1956, claimed to have supernatural abilities and held seances. At one she claimed to have contacted a sailor who had died on the HMS Barham.The news that it was torpedoed with hundreds of lives lost had not been made public and she was brought to the attention of the authorities.Duncan, who was dubbed "Hellish Nell", was arrested, branded a traitor and jailed for nine months.Production companies
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