Sin-eaters are a European tradition (in this sense) from 16-early 20th century (last one died in 1902(If I remember the number right). A sin-eaters purpose was as a spiritual helper, they'd be paid to go to a funeral (usually one where the deceased died abruptly) to eat food and drink (bread, salt, and drink water or ale) from the deceased body to rid them of sin. When the sin-eater ate the f... » Continue Reading
!talk about death! For the past few day's I've been learning a lot about beliefs about death, funerals and such, and within that comes religion and whatever else. I think the interest for learning about this all started in grade 4-5(?) when I looked through this book on ancient Egypt and saw this one blurb about mummification, and I read that one blurb over and over again. Then I stopped lear... » Continue Reading