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Subject: Re: WAY OT - sean/sawney bean

From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb2@...>
Date: 2001-01-18

--- In motm@egroups.com, "Dave Bradley" <daveb2@u...> wrote:
> Wasn't there a notorious 17th-18th century English highwayman
> named "Sawney Bean", who waylaid travellers, robbed and ate them,
> then raised an extended family of cannibals by interbreeding with
his
> offspring?

OK, I did some research, and I was a little off. It was in 13th-14th
century Scotland that good old Sawney and his brood lived.

England, Scotland - close enough, right? <LOL>

American Moe

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