Gaskill, Malcolm

Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches

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ISBN 13:
9781802061994
author:
Gaskill, Malcolm
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Penguin
language:
English
Publication Year:
2024
Pages:
496
Dimensions:
19.8 x 12.9 x 2.1 centimetres (0
Genre:
Health & Wellbeing, Mind, Body & Spirit, Witchcraft & Wicca,
Condition:
New
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Item usually sent within 10 working days
£11.95

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Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches

In 1944, Helen Duncan, known since childhood as 'Hellish Nell', was one of the most popular mediums of the twentieth century. Her seances were believed to manifest the spirits of the dead, offering an answer to the question that had been on everyone's mind: what happens when we die?

But when she started foretelling naval disasters, Duncan attracted unwanted attention from the secret service. Weeks before the Normandy landings, she was prosecuted for witchcraft and jailed. Was Nell a conjurer, a martyr or a security risk? This book tells her extraordinary story, a sensational tale of spectacle, credulity and cruelty, and of Britain's last witch.

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