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Scots cannibal roasted servant on spit and ate him in Edinburgh stately home

James Douglas was only 10-years-old when he committed his horror crime in the kitchen of his family home.



In 1707, during celebrations after the Act of Union, 10-year-old James Douglas, later known as "The Cannibalistic Idiot," escaped his quarters in an Edinburgh stately home, killed a servant in the kitchen, roasted him on a spit, and began eating him. The oven used can still be seen at Queensberry House.

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