[Sca-cooks] OOP OT Sweeney Todd was Precious stones to ward off evils

[Terry Decker]

> Personally this discussion is a lot more
> interesting to me than Sweeney Todd, whoever he is.
>
> Stefan

"The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."  Presumably, he was a barber and serial 
killer who plied his trades in London around 1800, met the nubbing-ken at 
the Old Bailey and the nubbing-cheat at Tyburn in 1802.  Body disposal was 
carried out by his sweetheart (with a different name for every version of 
the tale) by turning them into meat pies--finest kind.

Since there are no records of persons, trials or executions, Todd is 
probably the figment of a penny dreadful author from around 1846.

Bear