Sawney Bean Reportedly And Killed Travelers And Ate Their Bodies So He Couldn't Be Identified
Sawney Bean Reportedly And Killed Travelers And Ate Their Bodies So He Couldn't Be Identified The famine and the fairy tale During the famine of 1315, there were reports of " men and women in many places secretly ate their own children." What's more shocking is that those events are the foundation for one of the best known fairy tales ever Sawney Bean Reportedly And Killed Travelers And Ate Their Bodies So He Couldn't Be Identified Legendarily, Sawney Bean was the leader of a band of cannibals in Scotland who was active as early as the 1400s. The earliest sources that include information about Bean date to the 1770s, however, making it difficult to identify exactly when Bean lived - if at all. A tanner from East Lothian by trade, Bean married and moved to a remote cave. Once there, Bean and his wife sustained themselves living off the land. When travelers happened by, Bean robbed and murdered them. He soon realized he could get rid of the evidence and consume p...