There is though apparently not a shred of evidence for the Sawney Bean story being true. The earliest mention of it in print is seemingly 18thC English sources during the time of the Jacobite Rebelion. No records at all of it within Scotland itself and if it were true then one would suspect someone somewhere would have written about it during the time of the supposed Edinburgh trials etc. Of course one can't prove a negative but suffice to say that if it were true there should be some record somewhere. One would think!