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Posted on 05/14/2007 11:00:08 AM PDT by Renfield
More than 60 years on, the case of Helen Duncan, the last woman in Britain to be jailed for witchcraft, refuses to die. As her supporters seek a posthumous pardon, evidence has emerged that she may have been the victim of a plot involving British intelligence agents, including Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.
In the 1940s Duncan, a Dundee housewife and mother of six, travelled the country performing seances for a war-weary public often seeking reassurance about their loved ones. As a 'materialisation medium', which involved her going into a trance and producing 'ectoplasm' through which spirits would take on earthly features to communicate with the living, Duncan built a reputation as one of spiritualism's greatest heroines.......
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
“travelled the country performing seances for a war-weary public often seeking reassurance about their loved ones.”
So she was a flim-flam artist!
So if she was honestly providing the information and being paid for it, then she was releasing classified information for money (however unlikely that sounds.) If she was just making it up, she was a crook preying on worried soldiers’ families.
Either way, I’m not shedding a tear for the bwitch.
Ian Flemming ping!
Not necessarily. What she was doing doesn’t make her a witch, and if it did, why should that be illegal anyway?
Didn’t make her a witch but if she was doing seances for $$$$, she was certainly a flim-flam artist.
Maybe if she sold Snake Oil she wouldn’t have gone to the jug.
Hadn’t sold snake oil....sorry.
Not necessarily. Your assumption appears to be that all persons dealing with the paranormal are ipso facto frauds. But I am open to the possibility that some may be genuine.
They throw you in jail for that? If people believe it enough to pay her, what’s the government’s beef with it? Can they prove scientifically she’s a fraud? If not, she’s harmless, leave her alone and tend to some legitimate functions of government.
OK. Good on ya!
“travelled the country performing seances for a war-weary public often seeking reassurance about their loved ones.”
she probably would have stayed at “Camp Casey” too.
I think I saw her on a late night informercial with Dion Warwick!
Lol, I was going to post one of your 007 songs to you but couldn’t decide which one to use for this article!!
You Only Live Twice??
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Lovely post and the music is great! I like your James Bond, no new ‘blond, James Bond’ for me!!
I could have added my Japanese graphic to that one!
I’ll find you a ‘Bonsai tree’, lol.
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I have had a number of them, keep them inside and they just don’t make it to my regret.
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