Before revision: At the funeral of anyone who had died without confessing their sins, a sin-eater would take on the sins of the deceased by eating a loaf of bread and drinking ale out of a wooden bowl passed over the coffin, and make a short speech: The 1926 book Funeral Customs by Bertram S. Puckle mentions the sin-eater: In September 2022 occultist Sean Wilde performed the traditional sin eating ritual in Guelph, URL In popular culture William Sharp, writing as Fiona Macleod, published a weird tale entitled "The Sin Eater" in 1895.
After revision: At the funeral of anyone who had died without confessing their sins, a sin-eater would take on the sins of the deceased by eating a loaf of bread and drinking ale out of a wooden bowl passed over the coffin, and make a short speech: The 1926 book Funeral Customs by Bertram S. Puckle mentions the sin-eater: In popular culture William Sharp, writing as Fiona Macleod, published a weird tale entitled "The Sin Eater" in 1895.