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Helen Duncan, (Not) Scotland’s Last Witch

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Witchcraft Act and the Vagrancy Act

Jane Rebecca York, a forest gate in East Ham who was tried in late 1944 also in the Old Bailey and with the same prosecutor as Duncan had been. Although she was convicted, York was not jailed because of her age. She paid a fine of five pounds. The Witchcraft Act and the relevant parts of the Vagrancy Act repealed under the fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951 or an act to repeal the Witchcraft Act 1735.

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