Scotland has many stories, some which invoke the brave to the macabre. Sawney Bean was a real-life cannibal who lived in Scotland in the 16th century, the head of a forty-five member clan that preyed on over a thousand people as they set up traps to intercept messengers who were passing by and took the bodies back to their lair to consume. Also, whisky is seen as quite the lavish drink for most, but it was originally the drink for the underclasses. Claret was the drink of choice for the upper classes. Somerled who was the progenitor of Clan Donald also has five hundred thousand descendants, second only in the volume of living descendants to the 'big daddy' of living descendants, the famous Mongol ruler Genghis Khan.
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