Lindsay of Pitscottie tells a dismal story of a man who lived during the reign of James II., (about 1460), at a time also within the recollection of people alive during the epoch of the historian. He says: “About this time there was are brigand ta’en, with his haill family, who haunted a place in Angus. This mischievous man had ane execrable fashion, to tak all young men and children he could steal away quietly, or tak away without knowledge, and eat them; and the younger they were, esteemed them the maer tender and delicious. For the whilk cause and dreadful abuse, he with his wife and bairns were all burned, except ane young wench of a year old, wha was saved and brought to Dundee, where she was brought up and fostered; and when she came to woman’s years, she was condemned and burnt quick for that crime. It is said that when she was coming to the place of execution, there gathered are huge multitude of people, and especially women, cursing her that she was so unhappy to commit so infamous deeds; to whom she turned about with an ireful countenance, saying, ‘Wherefore chide ye me, as if I had committed ane unworthy act? Give me credence, and trow me, if ye had experience of eating men and women’s flesh, ye would think it so delicious that ye would never forbear it again.’ So, without any sign of repentance, this unhappy creature died in the sight of the people.” In the sunny land of Italy, in the year 1519, at the beautiful city of Milan, a record appears in its annals that a Milanese woman named Elizabeth had an invincible inclination to human flesh. She enticed children to her house, where she killed, salted and ate them. Being discovered, she was broken on the wheel and burnt. During one of the earlier revolutions in Southern Italy the _Neapolitan lazaroni_ (whether from hunger or to manifest intense hatred towards their rulers, as well as to exhibit the wretchedness to which they had been reduced,) roasted their fellow men in the public streets, and gave to all who were willing to partake. At the time when Belisarius was engaged in the Gothic war, a horrible famine afflicted Italy, and it is the testimony of Procopius that on this occasion multitudes in the agony of their want sustained life by eating human flesh. When Rome was captured by the Goths in the year 410 and the ports blockaded, there was such a distress among the _Romans_ that human flesh was publicly sold in the markets; and many mothers were forced to consume their own children. It is recorded also that the _Jews_ (having destroyed upwards of two hundred thousand Romans in the time of Trajan) glutted their rage by feeding on the bodies of some of the slain.