Helen Duncan was a Scottish medium who held spiritual séances during World War II.

Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan 25 November 1897 – 6 December 1956) was a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735 for fraudulent claims.

Duncan’s activities attracted the attention of the authorities and on 19 January 1944, one of her séances was interrupted by a police raid during which she and three members of her audience were arrested.

Duncan was remanded in custody by Portsmouth magistrates. During her séance, she spoke to a sailor’s spirit. He claimed to have lost his life as a consequence of his battleship, HMS Barham, being torpedoed. Considered a threat to security, the medium was arrested, and sent to trial.

Inevitably, there was an effort to dismiss Duncan as a fraudster. However, in her court case, she was denied a request to demonstrate her psychic powers.

It was claimed the spiritualist had her HMS Barham sailor revelation in November 1941 after the news of its sinking, with the loss of 841 officers and ratings, was released.

This is not true.  Only relatives were informed of the disaster many weeks after the battleship’s sinking. They would not have been informed of how the ship had been sunk. Helen Duncan was the last person in Britain to be found guilty of witchcraft. She was put behind bars for nine months. PLEASE SHARE OUR STORIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA

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