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[[File:Sacamantecas.jpg|thumb|Juan Díaz de Garayo.]]
*[[Juan Díaz de Garayo]] (1821-1881) was a Spanish serial killer operating in Northern Spain. He was nicknamed ''el Sacamantecas'', which became used to scare children into behaving.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.salvatierra-agurain.es/garayo_el_sacamentecas.html | title=Garayo "The Sacamentecas" | publisher=www.salvatierra-agurain.es}}</ref>
* Brenan reports<ref name="Brenan"/> that a family of Gipsies in the [[Sierra de Gádor]] was found in 1910. They stole babies to drink their warm blood. A folk healer (''[[curandero]]'') had told them that the blood would cure [[tuberculosis]] and keep them indefinitely alive. In the same year and the same region of Spain, [[Francisco Leóna]] and Julio ''Tonto'' Hernández kidnapped and killed a boy of seven years for his blood and fat to treat the tuberculosis of Francisco Ortega, a wealthy farmer who hired the men for that purpose.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ayala Sörense |first=Federico |title=El verdadero «Hombre del Saco» |url=http://www.abc.es/abcfoto/revelado/20140925/abci-crimen-hombre-saco-201409242057.html |editor-last=Expósiot |editor-first=Ángel |date=September 25, 2014 |access-date=March 27, 2018 |newspaper=[[ABC (Spain)|ABC]] |language=es |publisher=Diario ABC, S.L.}}</ref>
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