Or maybe that the Nazis would pick up the D-Day date from her, using _their_ dark forces. (Hitler used an astrologer.) If their theory was what you suggest, she'd have been liable for espionage and treason, and subject to capital punishment, as under the old Witchcraft Act. Hey, I don't write the law, I'm just telling you what it says.
--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Holy Crap! They thought she was going to use her
> dark
> forces to scry the timing of the invasion and send
> it
> to the Nazis carried across the sea by her familiar
> or
> something?
>
> --- andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Helen Duncan, a medium, was the last person to be
> > convicted under the Witchcraft Act, 1735 (9 Geo.
> 2)
> > C
> > A P. V, in 1944. She was jailed for nine months to
> > protect the secret of the timing of D-Day. Really!
> > The
> > Witchcraft Act was repealed 1951. The Act under
> > which
> > she was convicted was nicer than the Act it
> > replaced,
> > 1541 (33 Hen. 8) C A P. VIII, which made death the
> > penalty for consorting with evil spirits.
> >
>
>
> Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo, lyubo, bratsy, zhit!
>
> ËÞÁÎ, ÁÐÀÒÖÛ, ËÞÁÎ, ËÞÁÎ, ÁÐÀÒÖÛ, ÆÈÒÜ!
>
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