What is a sin?

sin-eater is a traditional type of spiritual healer who uses a ritual to cleanse the dying of his sins. Sin-eater absorbs the sins of the people they serve and usually work for a fee. Since sins are usually consumed by food and drink, sin also acquires food through a transaction. Sin-eaters are often excretions because work can be considered disgusting and is usually assumed that they lead to posthumous life in hell to carry unidentified sins of others. The Roman Catholic Church regularly excommunicated eaters of sins when they were more common, not only because of the excessive sins they carried, but also because they violated the territory of priests to manage the last ceremonies to die according to the Church doctrine. In some traditions, they perform sinfids working for moribund, while in others the ritual takes place at the funeral. Sin-eater is usually associated with the British Isles, but there are also analogous customs in other cultures.

sin-eater usually consumes bread as part of the ritual of taking the sins of the dying person. It can also eat salt or drink water or beer. Sometimes special breads are baked for a ritual consuming sin, perhaps representing the initials or a picture of the deceased. The food is sometimes passed through a dead or dying body or is placed on his breasts to symbolize his absorption of the person's sins. Sin-eater can also recite a special prayer.

Some cultures have customs that are similar to sin eating and could develop from traditional forms of ritual. For example, the place of a designated, ejected sin serving villages can perform this service, as well as traditional in Bavaria and on the Balkan Peninsula. In the Netherlands and some parts of England, ritual pastries of the operator or Palboř were given at the funeral. This second tradition lived for some time in New York. Today the habit of sin-eater has largely died out, although it is often a linkObloated in popular culture.