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In a small Ontario community in 1919, a woman named Maggie Pollock found herself at the centre of a controversy that seemed better suited to the 1600s than the 20th century.
Maggie was known around Huron County for her unusual abilities. She claimed to receive visions, communicate with the dead, and help neighbours locate things that had gone missing. To some, she possessed an extraordinary gift. To others, her abilities were something far more suspicious.
But when a farmer paid Maggie to help locate stolen grain, her mysterious reputation landed her in serious legal trouble.
Maggie was charged under a Canadian law that criminalized certain claims of supernatural powers. Her case would become one of the country's most unusual legal battles, raising questions about belief, fraud, superstition, and the treatment of women who didn't quite fit society's expectations.
And the strangest part? The law that helped put Maggie on trial remained on Canada's books until 2018.
In this episode of Down the Crooked Path, Amanda explores the extraordinary true story of Maggie Pollock, the woman known as the Seeress of Blyth, and the Huron County witchcraft case.
Was Maggie a gifted medium, a clever opportunist, or simply a woman whose beliefs put her on the wrong side of an outdated law?
Sometimes the strangest things lurking in Canada's history aren't ghosts or monsters.
Sometimes they're written into the law itself.
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