Fires have been breaking out spontaneously on the island of Sicily
recently, and in 1990, the same thing happened near Venice.
Twenty years ago, similar fires in Italy were blamed on the
supernatural powers of a woman who was put in jail for
starting them.
While the U.S. has its history of persecuting witches in
Salem, Massachusetts, it's hard to believe that someone
could be put in jail for practicing witchcraft in a developed
country as late as 1982, but that's what happened to Carole
Compton. Tracey Lawson writes in The Scotsman that she
was accused of using pyrokinesis to start fires in the homes
where she worked as a nanny.
She left Scotland for Italy in 1982 and got a job as a nanny
in Rome. First religious objects and paintings began falling and
flying off the walls, then fires broke out in the bedroom of the
two-year-old boy she was caring for, as well as in her
employers' country home. When she took another job, it
happened all over again: objects began falling off the walls in
the new home and the bed of the child she was caring for
again had a fire. She was sentenced to two and a half years
in prison and spent 16 months there.
She returned to England and wrote a book about her ordeal
titled "Superstition: The True Story of The Nanny They Called
A Witch." She says, "What happened to me is something that
never goes away. It was a dreadful ordeal, and all this
doesn?t help. I don?t know what?s happening over there now,
and I don?t want to. I have a happy life now. I try not to
think about the past."
Il Messagero quoted Father Gabriel Amorth, the Vatican?s
expert on exorcisms, as saying, "I've seen things like this
before. Demons occupy a house and appear in electrical
goods. Let?s not forget that Satan and his followers have
immense powers." Let's hope they don?t find another nanny to
blame them on.
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