Britain's last witch trails

In 1944, two British women were tried for witchcraft. They were Helen Duncan and Jane Rebecca Yorke. Both were to become the last two people to be arrested and tried under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. It happened during the Second World War, at a time of national crisis and air raid bombings. So one might think resorting to witch mania again was the result of PTSD. Bringing back an infamous law against two citizens was enough to get even the prime minister involved. Winston Churchill said that the witch trails of Helen Duncan and Jane Rebecca Yorke was "obsolete tomfoolery" and a complete waste of wartime recourses. 

Why did this happen? It started at a meeting in a house. Helen Duncan held a séance there, as she was a well known clairvoyant. She caused officials panic when Helen was able to know secrets about naval ships. She predicted the sinking of HMS Barham and this made them prosecute her. They were worried she might know too much about their military operations including the Normandy Landings. Many have supported Helen who gave their statements validating her psychic powers, but still she was locked up in prison for nine months. 

She was also accused of being a fraud who "exploited" people during dark times. They nicknamed her "Hellish Nell". She could summon spirits of the dead during seances. Born Victoria Helen MacFarlane in Callander, Perthshire in Scotland in 1897, she could see spirits and had the gift of foresight since childhood. It made her stand out amongst other kids in school. It was then that she started using her powers after leaving school aged 14 while working in an infirmary. She married a soldier and went onto have six children. She always suffered chronic conditions including Type II diabetes but on top of this she suffered grief from having a number of miscarriages. In 1956 police raided her seance meeting and interrupted her trance, causing her ectoplasm to snap back into her system. She never recovered from this and passed away five weeks later on 6th December 1956. Official records state her cause of death was ill health and diabetes. Today her descendants often appeal to the Scottish government to clear her name but this is always rejected. A piece of Helen's ectoplasm is at a museum. 

Jane Rebecca Yorke was the next victim of the system's sudden regress back to witch mania. She worked as a psychic medium in Forest Gate, Essex. Again she was also arrested by police for the same reasons as Helen. It was almost like a sting, as police went undercover during a seance meeting, and tricked Jane into falling in their trap. They pretended to have certain relatives who died, but once she contacted her spirit guide and talked about them, the police nicked her. While Jane had been communicating with spirits of the deceased family members, who were totally made up by the police. One undercover cop invented a brother who Jane said had just been killed in the war. That was enough for the police to show that Jane was a fraud, but this was about scepticism and not actual magic.

In 1944 Jane's trail happened at the Old Bailey, and she was found guilty of seven counts against the Witchcraft Act of 1735. She was sentenced with a fine and put on a good behaviour bond for three years, making her promise she would stop organising seances. Jane never held seances again, simply out of fear from the bullying establishment and police. The Witchcraft Act appeared during the mid 18th century as a mild way of dealing with witches. It was created by more reasonable lawmakers who wanted to end the barbaric punishments of witches. The act was repealed in 1951.

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Spooky quicks March 2026

 There's a lot to mention on this post. First of all, you decide for yourself if you think any of this could be real or not. 

A mapping drone using a camera was doing a routine survey of a forested area then it picked up something no one was meant to see. A pack of large creatures resembling upright walking canines, gathered deep in a forest. This was in the Pacific Northwest, and an operator worked using aerial mapping with a drone. It was a distance of 12 miles from the position of the operator, that the drone captured a werewolf pack. Check it out for yourself on Youtube HERE.

A 2021 video clip of a UFO near Syria has been released by journalists Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp. They found the footage of a UFO filmed by US military using a drone. To have a look visit the link to Youtube. 

Anyone ever think of excuses in school about forgetting your homework such as because the dog ate it? Adults are often making up excuses for why they're committing crimes. In Florida a man speeding at 100mph in a stolen BMW crashed the car and survived, only to tell police that he "teleported" there in the driver's seat! He also thanked the police for saving his life from aliens!  There's a video of this on Youtube HERE. This is just bizarre. 

There's the frightening mystery of Spontaneous Human Combustion and now also Spontaneous Tree Explosion. There are strange frost cracking trees in the Midwest and northern plains of the United States. These trees get so cold that they burst! See the item about this by CBS Chicago HERE. 

Now a mystical phenomena of a spinning snow wind caught on camera. It was filmed in Colorado by Mandy Campbell. Check this interesting weather clip HERE.

Now someone's own personal story to share of a spooky nature. Someone by the name of Jon-the-ninja remembers a strange incident where he mentioned on Reddit. He lived in Connecticut and at 11pm during a full moon night he was going to meet a friend. He approached the friend's property and then found him already stood there outside nearer the garage adjoined to the house. In response, he called to his friend, who only appeared to be staring blankly at him. Jon-the-ninja decided to leave and proceeded to contact him on Snapchat, asking what was going on. Quickly he got a reply from his friend who said he was at a bowling alley, sending photos of him there. This happened immediately afterwards. The bowling alley was some distance away and not possible for the friend to have appeared there so quickly. He could only conclude that the guy he'd seen outside the house wasn't really his friend but looked exactly like him. Was that a double? It unnerved the poster so much that he refuses to go out at night alone. 

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Likhoradka

This is a post I was researching before becoming ill. Strange really, as the subject is about Likhoradka, an entity from Slavic mythology that gives people sickness! It's believed that Likhoradka is able to enter someone, like a form of demonic possession, and then causes the person to get very weak, ill and also perhaps bring about even death. She most of all brings misfortune and bad luck.

She's a creation of the dark sinister deity named Chernobog. This particular one, Chernobog, appears in Chronicle written by Helmold of Bosau. It says Chernobog is malignant and also represents winter. His daughter Likhoradka is one of many plague princesses and there are 12 of them in total. These are known as the 12 Likhoradka sisters. Some believe each of the female entities represent times including different days and different illnesses. 

Likhoradka is understood to team up with demons and enters homes as they can. People in places like Serbia call this creature Milosnice, or Milosnitsy and other different traditions in various Slavic countries have many stories about her. People tend to use charms, religious symbols and practices to ward her evil away. 

Was there a connection to me getting very ill soon after I considered looking into this entity? Before then I didn't know about this legendary figure. It's always best to be certain and respectful. Don't scoff at folklore and always be prepared.  

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