Louisiana: In a rather bizarre sequence of events, a woman in Louisiana, USA, ended up burning down her house after she set her sofa on fire, believing that it was haunted by the Devil. The woman, identified as 53-year-old JoLynn Winn decided to perform an exorcism on her couch as she was convinced that the devil resided in her piece of furniture, The Sun reported.
The incident is said to have taken place on August 11 at Arnold Road in Louisiana, as per the report. Firefighters were called on the scene after reports of a trailer house on fire, where they found Winn suffering due to smoke inhalation. The Fire Marshal later arrested the 53-year-old when it was discovered that it was she who had started the fire.
Winn is said to have told the firefighters that had set the couch ablaze as she wanted to rid her home of the devil, The Sun quoted a local news channel WAFB as reporting. Following the “ritual”, Winn has been lodged at the Livingston Parish jail and faces a single charge of arson.
As per the report, before the investigators could arrive at the scene of the incident, Winn had to be taken to a local hospital for further treatment. The investigators ascertained that the fire had damaged the living room of the trailer. The probe also found out that the fire had started because of the burning sofa.
In July, a video from Mexico City had gone viral on social media when a man allegedly performed an exorcism ritual in a metro train on a woman apparently “possessed” by the Devil. The man, dressed in a formal suit, could be heard in the video asking the ‘devil’ in the ‘possessed’ woman to leave ‘in the name of Jesus’.
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