* Sawney Beane: The Abduction of Elspeth Cumming is a work of historical fiction by author Frieda Gates.

It takes the Legend of Sawney Beane and examines it through the lens of a young girl, Elspeth Cumming, abducted by Sawney and his family.

* The punk rock band the Real McKenzies recorded a song entitled " Sawney Beane Clan ".

* In 2006, American Psych rockers Dead Loretta, recorded a song entitled " Sawney Beane ".

* The book Madhouse by Rob Thurman features Sawney Beane as the main villain.

* 2005 saw the release of an award-winning UK ./ Canada co-produced animated short, The True Story of Sawney Beane.

* The Sawney Beane clan were speculated to be the inspiration for the fictional Reavers in Joss Whedon's cult sci-fi series Firefly by author Lawrence Watt-Evans in the book of essays " Finding Serenity: Anti-Hereos, Lost Shepards and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly.

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According to legend, the Hairy Tree was planted by Sawney Bean's eldest daughter in the town's Dalrymple Street.

While historians tend to believe that Sawney Bean never existed, his story has passed into legend and is part of the Edinburgh tourism industry.

The legend of Sawney Bean first appeared in the British chapbooks ( rumour magazines of the day ), which today leads many to argue that the story was a political propaganda tool to denigrate the Scots after the Jacobite Rebellions.

* The legend of Alexander " Sawney " Bean has been chronicled in various media, including such print sources as Historical and Traditional Tales Connected with the South of Scotland by John Nicholson, 1843 ; The Legend of Sawney Bean, by Ronald Holmes, London, 1975 ; The Flesh Eaters, by L. A. Morse, Warner Books, 1979 ; and Cannibalism: The Last Taboo, by Brian Marriner London ; Arrow, 1992

* Jack Ketchum's novel Off Season is an update of the Sawney Bean legend, with the cannibalistic clan headquartered in a sea cave on the Maine coast.

* In 2003 Christian Viel directed Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain ( aka Samhain ), a soft-core version of the Sawney legend set in modern-day Ireland.

* There is a boat ride set in the caves inhabited by the Sawney Bean family in the Edinburgh Dungeon as well as a short show presenting the legend.

* Some authors suggest that the short story The Lurking Fear by H. P. Lovecraft could have been inspired by the figure of Sawney Bean through Historical and Traditional Tales Connected with the South of Scotland.

The film was conceived as a modern retelling of the Sawney Bean story.

In the script, titled Blood Relations: The Sun War, the clan consisted of dozens of incestuous family members, similar to the Sawney Bean family that inspired the story.

* Mick Lewis's novel The Bloody Man also deals with the myth of Sawney Bean, which is also mentioned in the novel Paying the Piper by Sharyn McCrumb.

The coastline south of Girvan is famous for its geology, and also for Sawney Bean's Cave, where the legendary murderer and cannibal Sawney Bean supposedly lived until his arrest and execution in Edinburgh.

Sawney Bean is often considered a mythic figure.

Sawney Rath, the leader of Juska, a vermin clan, believes Deyna, an otter born of the community at Redwall, is their Taggerung, a warrior destined to lead them to power and greatness.

In Mossflower Woods, Rillflag an otter from Redwall is completing a birth ritual with his newborn son, Deyna, when Sawney Rath and his tribe of vermin ambush him.

Christie Cleek ( or-Cleek or of-the-Cleek ), is a legendary Scottish cannibal, somewhat in the vein of the better-known Sawney Bean.

Sempill is supposed to be the author also of an epitaph on Sawney Briggs, nephew to Habbie Simpson, written in the same stanza.

* Sawney Bean, cannibal and outlaw, 15th to 16th century

Originally a monthly bulletin of executions, produced by the Keeper of Newgate Prison in London, the Calendar's title was appropriated by other publishers, who put out biographical chapbooks about notorious criminals such as Sawney Bean, Dick Turpin, John Wilkes and Moll Cutpurse.

Alexander " Sawney " Bean ( e ) was the legendary head of a 48-member clan in 15th-or 16th-century Scotland, reportedly executed for the mass murder and cannibalisation of over 1, 000 people.

A 2005 article by Sean Thomas notes that historical documents, such as newspapers and diaries during the era when Sawney Bean was supposedly active, make no mention of ongoing disappearances of hundreds of persons.

* Musician Snakefinger's " Sawney Bean / Sawney's Death Dance " ( from his album, Night of Desirable Objects ) tells the tale of the clan and its eventual comeuppance, as does the concept album, Inbreeding the Anthropophagi by American death metal band Deeds of Flesh.

In 2011, a film based on Lewis ' book which dramatised Beane's use of sabermetrics was released, starring Brad Pitt in the role of Beane.

Hertford is at the confluence of four river valleys: the Rib, Beane and Mimram join the River Lea at Hertford to flow south toward the Thames as the Lee Navigation, after Hertford Castle Weir. The shared valley of the Lea and the Beane is called Hartham Common and this provides a large park to one side of the town centre running towards Ware and lying below the ridge upon which Bengeo is situated. Hartham Common

The book documents Beane's often-tense discussions with his scouting staff ( who favored traditional subjective evaluation of potential rather than objective sabermetrics ) in preparation for the draft to the actual draft, which defied all expectations and was considered at the time a wildly successful ( if unorthodox ) effort by Beane.

Greig was starring in The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane at the Garrick Theatre in London, which did run a limited season until 10 April 2010.

Henry was briefly portrayed by Arliss Howard in the 2011 film Moneyball which follows Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his quest to build a winning team in 2002.

The film notes that Beane turned down a $ 12. 5-million per year contract with Boston and returned to Oakland, but adds that the Red Sox did use many of the " Moneyball " ideas and soon won two World Series, including their 2004 title which was the first Red Sox championship in 86 years.

The rivers Rib, Beane, Mimram, and Lea all meet in Hertford, which is protected from over development by Green Belt land which encircles the town separating it from its neighbour Ware ( 17, 000 ) in the western part of the constituency.

In that chapter, Oakland General Manager Billy Beane openly admitted how the team had pursued Hatteberg because of his high on-base percentage, which, Athletics ' management had determined, was most often correlated with runs scored.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game ( ISBN 0-393-05765-8 ) is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane.

The central one is Billy Beane himself, whose failed playing career is contrasted with wildly optimistic predictions by scouts.

DePodesta is featured ( along with Billy Beane ) in the book Moneyball as it discusses their non-traditional approach to using statistics to manage the Oakland A's.

Bengeo is on a rise between the River Beane and River Rib overlooking Hartham Common.

Its toponym is derived from an Old English name meaning spur or ridge over the River Beane.

In a book whose key theme is the gulf between orthodox baseball thinking and the new sabermetric influenced system being implemented by Billy Beane, Swisher was notable as one of the few examples of a player who traditional scouts and Beane could agree upon.

Suzuki Beane is a humor book written in 1961 by Sandra Scoppettone and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh.

Watton-at-Stone is a village in the English county of Hertfordshire, situated midway between the towns of Stevenage and Hertford in the valley of the River Beane.

Also included on the set, as reported by TV Guide's Stephen Battaglio, is an Oakland Athletics baseball cap ; executive producer Chris Licht included it to remind his staff of Moneyball, whose central character ( A's executive Billy Beane ) took an outside-the-box approach that Licht hopes CBS This Morning replicates.