Does anyone know more about this?: [In] St Buryan ... in April 11, 1975 ... Lady Lucy Russell (Bertrand Russells 24-year-old grand-daughter) ... entered the churchyard. There, after drenching her body in paraffin, she set herself alight, apparently clinging to one of the two sun-wheel crosses on a large pyramid-shaped monument. Blazing like a human torch, Lucy ran from the church and collapsed in the village smithy. ... Lord Russell, who died in 1970, was aware of Lucys schizophrenic tendencies and feared the same impulse might surface in himself, his family being haunted by the ghosts of maniacs, and the strict rationalism that governed his own thinking may testify to the strength of his rebuttal. – Paul Newman (The Tregerthen Horror)
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