TIL about the ritual of "sin eating"
TIL about the ritual of "sin eating"
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In Master and Commander, the first book in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, a former sin eater is abused by his shipmates out of prejudice. It's an interesting subplot in an excellent book.
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The Royal Navy hated pirates, but I count them among my shipmates.
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I was with them until this part:
while in the Balkan peninsula a small bread image of the deceased is made and eaten by the survivors of the family.
That crosses over into 'what the fuck is wrong with you people' territory.
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I dunno, adding gingerbread yous as a party favor to your funeral sounds absolutely fantastic. Every funeral I’ve been to would have been improved by gingerbread people of whoever died.
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Right? Who eats bread-body without blood-wine?
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Everyone knows that bloodwine is for pairing with gagh, not puny p-taq bread
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In this house voodoo effigies are for eating only not burning.
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Wasn't there a movie with Heath Ledger about that?
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The Order.
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There was a really intriguing subplot based around this ritual in the latest season of Fargo
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Oh yeah and that dude was like 509 years old. But that was never explained how or why he lived so long.
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Turns out sin is very very nutritious
But also all the fargo seasons have some underexplained supernatural phenomenon
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The Martyr Made podcast has a Great episode on how Cannibalism evolved into the rituals we follow today. Sin eating feels like a direct descendant.
Would recommend if you have 3+hrs!
https://www.martyrmade.com/featured-podcasts/human-sacrifice-and-cannibalism
(Spotify link) https://open.spotify.com/episode/6vycbiPKo6dddYQVYw5HLE
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Huh that’s interesting
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