The butchering and defleshing of dead family members was part of a gruesome ritual practiced by Stone Age Arcadians hear about it on urban legends and stranger truths the Orkney Islands are a group of islands that are located off the north shore of Scotland thousands of years ago. The people inhabiting these islands are said to have practiced isly ritual that involved the dismemberment and disfleshing of their dead relatives prior to transferring the bones to a common tomb