Also, why is Friday the 13th so scary? And how to prepare for Saturday's solar eclipse.
| PHOTOGRAPH BY DAILY MIRROR ARCHIVE, MIRRORPIX/GETTY IMAGES | | Do you think of “witches” as something from a bygone era, of bonfires and Puritans and hysteria?
What about Helen Duncan? During séances in World War II, spirits supposedly “told” her (pictured above) about secret British naval disasters.
In 1944, while Nazi rockets rained down on London, she stood accused of violating the Witchcraft Act of 1735. Churchill called the trial barbaric and an abomination, but that didn’t help her. | | | |
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| PHOTOGRAPH BY ERICH LESSING, ALBUM | | | |
| PHOTOGRAPH BY ORSOLYA HAARBERG | | Fragile wonderlands: Photographer Orsolya Haarberg ventured into Europe's old-growth forests to document the remarkable richness of life in the woods, its beauty, value—and fragility.
The trees (above) are among those still standing tall at Italy’s Abruzzo, Lazio, and Molise National Park, home to some of the oldest beech forests in Europe that have escaped felling for centuries because the site is hard to get to. | | | |
| PHOTOGRAPH BY VISUAL CHINA GROUP, GETTY IMAGES | | Catch it now or wait until 2039: Saturday’s rare ’ring of fire’ solar eclipse will be visible in parts of the western United States, as well as Central and South America. Here’s how to safely see it and how it is created. | | | |
Today’s soundtrack: Which Witch, Florence + The Machine
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