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The Legend:
In the 17th century, an elderly woman was found burned to death in her cottage in southeastern England. Other than the woman, nothing else in the cottage was damaged; not even the bedclothes on which she lay. An observer was quoted as saying: "No man knoweth what this doth portend." There were suggestions that it was divine retribution for an unknown sin.
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The account above is from Reader's Digest Strange Stories, Amazing Facts; they don't give a source for the account. Given the extremely vague nature of this story, I'll be lucky to recognize it if I see it in another book... and until I find more details, it's totally unconfirmable.
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