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Scottish cannibal Alexander 'Sawney' Bean, circa 1400. He and his extensively inbred family lived in a cave in Ayrshire, where they slaughtered passers-by and lived off their flesh. They were eventually captured and put to death. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Scottish cannibal Alexander 'Sawney' Bean, circa 1400. He and his extensively inbred family lived in a cave in Ayrshire, where they slaughtered passers-by and lived off their flesh. They were eventually captured and put to death. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)