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Christie-Cleek
Christie Cleek (or -Cleek or of-the-Cleek), is a legendary Scottish cannibal, somewhat in the vein of the better-known Sawney Bean.
==Folklore==
According to folklore, his real name was Andrew Christie, a Perth butcher. During a severe famine in the mid-fourteenth century (Hector Boece records floods, morrain, and plagues of "myce and ratonis" throughout Scotland in 1340), Christie joined a group of scavengers in the foothills of the Grampians. When one of the party died of starvation, Christie put his skills to work on the corpse and provided his companions with a ready meal. The group developed a taste for human flesh as, under Christie's leadership, they began to ambush travellers in the passes of the Grampians, feeding on their bodies and those of their horses. It is alleged that before attacking, Christie would haul his victims from their mounts with a hook on a rod: this implement was the "cleke" (i.e., "crook") from which he took his sobriquet. Thirty riders apparently died at Christie's hands. Eventually the company was defeated by an armed force from Perth, except for Christie himself, who supposedly escaped and re-entered society under a new name.
The earliest versions of this narrative are much less detailed, recording only Christie's cannibalism and his methods of trapping prey. No mention is made of his accomplices or eventual fate.
Cheviot's ''Proverbs'' (1896) mentions some folklore about the character, who came to be known as a bugbear or bogeyman:
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