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LATE MRS HELEN DUNCAN

... LATE MRS HELEN DUNCAN I should like to thank the Press for their sympathetic reference to the death of my wife. Mrs Helen Duncan. I should particularly like to mention the understanding attitude of the many Press representatives who have made inquiries ...

Published: Monday 10 December 1956
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 786 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Atthe centre of it all was Helen Duncan, born in Callander in 1897, an otherwise ordinaryif severely overweight ..

... Atthe centre of it all was Helen Duncan, born in Callander in 1897, an otherwise ordinaryif severely overweight mother of six and sometime bleachworks employee,whobetween thewarsattracted alarge following as aspiritualist medium, travelling around Britain ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 176 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

Tonight’s highlights Secret History ' (Channel 4,9 pm) - In 1944 Helen Duncan was charged with pretending to ..

... Tonight’s highlights Secret History ' (Channel 4,9 pm) - In 1944 Helen Duncan was charged with pretending to “exercise.or -, use a-kind of conjuration of spirits of decéased persons, contrary to’ section’a of the Witchcraft-Act,” | 1735: The trial ...

Published: Monday 20 July 1998
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 305 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Colmer has no doubt that Helen Duncan was a gifted medium, and a martyr to the spiritualist cause. Cambridge ..

... Colmer has no doubt that Helen Duncan was a gifted medium, and a martyr to the spiritualist cause. Cambridge historian Malcolm Gaskill, however, believes the woman nicknamed “Hellish Nell” (not through any Satanic dabblings but because of her childhood ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

Eddcbuegh Bubxkg Accident . —Helen Duncan who resides at 12 Morrison Street , Edinburgh , wa : removed from there

... Eddcbuegh Bubxkg Accident . —Helen Duncan who resides at 12 Morrison Street , Edinburgh , wa : removed from there to the Royal Infirmary yester day suffering from severe burns . Hearing screams , a neighbour ran into ihe house , ant found the -woman lying ...

Published: Wednesday 16 March 1927
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 380 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

MUSICAL.—At the recent examination held in Glasgow under the auspices of the London College of Music, Helen ..

... MUSICAL.—At the recent examination held in Glasgow under the auspices of the London College of Music, Helen Duncan, Bathgate, gained the highest award in the Higher Junior Grade, while Jean Bennie, Torphichen, gained the highest award in the Junior Grade ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1939
Newspaper: West Lothian Courier
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 164 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Pharmacy - Honours - Ist Class - Lisa Helen Duncan. Bachelor of Science - Alexander Robert Maclean. s Pharmacy -

... Pharmacy - Honours - Ist Class - Lisa Helen Duncan. Bachelor of Science - Alexander Robert Maclean. s Pharmacy - Honours - Ist Class - mm%&m stone, Clare &hr:m gor, Donna Robin Murfl Catriona Alison A hnetialib, Selena A 1 mhd.hunlhhemudn Sarah .Brown ...

Published: Wednesday 04 July 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Helen Duncan: limprisoned for witchcraft Hello Bollywood We're lapping up Indian films, but can the magical ..

... Helen Duncan: limprisoned for witchcraft Hello Bollywood We're lapping up Indian films, but can the magical musicals change with the times? - - Fake fakir or medium rare, will the late Helen Duncan ever receive a pardon? Poet in the pink Having long since ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 102 | Page: 2 | Tags: none