Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches by Malcolm Gaskill

Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches

Malcolm Gaskill

402 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction biography challenging reflective medium-paced
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The 1735 Witchcraft Act, charging that spirits of the dead had been raised by conjuration, was used for the last time in Portsmouth in 1944. The accused was Helen Duncan, a plump Scotswoman, convicted as a fraud yet believed by hundreds to possess...

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