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Robert Burns was 'member of scandalous religious sect'

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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20030119
Author:ANNABEL HOUSE

NEW evidence has emerged about Robert Burns' involvement with a heretical religious sect that held clandestine orgies.

An amateur historian, who has spent five years researching links between Scotland's most famous poet and the Buchanites sect, believes Burns was almost certainly a member.

The poet admitted he knew most of the members and secret songs sung at meetings, only to later condemn them for their "scandalously indecent" practices.

But John Millar, 79, said he believed Burns was simply trying to cover up his involvement with the Buchanites in Irvine in 1781 to preserve his ...

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