? - 1435
Sawney Beane and his clan ignored this new fangled taboo and attacked travelers and feasted on their flesh, they may have preyed upon a thousand victims.
Sawney Beane was born into a farmer's family just outside Edinburgh, sometime in the late 1300's. For some reason he left home as a young man and picking up a woman along the way made his way to the opposite side of the country. There he would find his home, nothing more but a crack in a cliff, which lead deeper to a cave. They resided there on the southwest seaside along the coast of Galloway.
The cave was a mile from the seaside entrance and the entrance was flooded twice a day, perfect for someone wishing to live a life based on plunder. At first he would take material things, until he and his wife had 14 children and needed something to feed them with. The Beane boys and girls began to mate amongst themselves making more mouths to feed. The Beane clan developed a taste for human flesh and for the next 25 years travelers disappeared among the rocky reaches of Galloway. At times a half dozen of people would go missing meaning that safety was not in numbers.
There were theories of man eating wolves, demons, and werewolves.
One day a party of thirty people returning home from a fair came upon a most shocking event. A man was keeping a band of savage looking attackers away with a pistol his wife lay dead, disemboweled and some of the band feeding right there and then, after the shock subsided they rushed the cannibals and sure enough the pack ran for the hills.
Now though there were witnesses, King James himself, 400 troops and packs of bloodhounds eventually found their way to the cliffs. Eventually reaching the cave they found the pack of 48 cannibals huddled up together.
Declared as beasts they had no right to trial and were tortured and executed. The man made to bleed to death over long amounts of time while the women were made to watch and then the women themselves burned on three seperate bonfires.
