term encompassing reported cases of the combustion of a human body without an apparent external source of ignition
Depiction of spontaneous combustion from the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House by Hablot Knight Browne
Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is the pseudoscientific concept of the spontaneous combustion of a living (or recently deceased) human body without an external source of ignition on the body. In addition to reported cases, descriptions of the alleged phenomenon appear in literature, and both types have been observed to share common characteristics in terms of circumstances and the remains of the victim.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).