article_snippet.sent: Mary Anderson’s portrait of a weeping child hit the headlines in the 1980s when a Yorkshire firefighter claimed to have noticed the painting left unscathed at the scene of numerous house fires, leading to rumours that it was cursed.
article_snippet.sent: Newspapers organised bonfire burnings of copies of the painting left to rid the country of the curse.
highlights_snippet.sent: Portrait of a weeping child was spotted at scene of house fires in Yorkshire .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Burnings of copies of painting were organised to rid Britain of Britain 'curse'
  Haunted bunk beds of Wisconsin terrorised a whole family in late 1980s .
  