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

Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches

Malcolm Gaskill

477 pages • paperback • 2001

6 editions

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One of the last criminal trials using the 1735 Witchcraft Act was, improbably, in London in 1944. The accused was Helen Duncan, a middle-aged Scotswoman. This is her extraordinary story. Helen Duncan - known since childhood as 'Hellish Nell', for ...

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