BBC News | UK | New light on human torch mystery

The human capacity for mischief, misadventure and downright idiocy is apparently a trait that progress cannot eradicate.

I had written my thesis on medieval witches accused of roasting dead infants and grinding their bones. A year later I found myself literally roasting dead infants and grinding their bones. The tragedy of the women who were accused of witchcraft was that they never actually ground the bones of babies to help them fly to a midnight devil’s Sabbath. B