Myths & mysteries
Eerie tradition of the sin eaters
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For a few coins, they would literally swallow your damnation. In 18th-century Wales, outcast 'sin eaters' were hired to consume bread rested on the chest of a fresh corpse, absorbing the departed's spiritual transgressions into their own cursed bodies so the dead could find peace.
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