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Carole Crompton, whose story was in the headlines a few years back, was a Scots nanny working in Italy who was accused of starting fires in the homes where she worked to gain attention. The account presented here is the typical flag-waving, Sun-reader, football supporter version of reality: the lonely, innocent Brit persecuted by all those dastardly superstition-ridden foreigners. It was not however Italians who introduced the paranormalist claims, but the British press, and paranormalists, who seem to have the idea that "white hot anger or smoldering rage" can literally burn the house down. If such abilities existed one imagines that the deaths from spontaneous combustion among British Rail staff would be quite phenomenal, to say nothing of all the exploding cars in traffic jams and scorched football referees. The fact that we don't have to cope with all these sad fates is pretty good evidence that such powers don't exist.
- Peter Rogerson, from Magonia 40, 1991
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