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Duncan's First Fraud Conviction
In 1933, Peggy Duncan was convicted of fraud after a seance in Edinburgh. She kept doing seances and despite that conviction, she became increasingly popular. As World War II began, more and more people sought her help to try to speak to loved ones who had been killed.
Helen Duncan is sometimes described as Scotland’s last witch, or the last person imprisoned for witchcraft in Britain, or the last person to be tried under the UK’s 1735 Witchcraft Act. None of those are quite accurate.
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