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... > social science subjects > sociology > aging and the life course > death and dying > death in culture > death rituals and ceremonies > sin eating
... > social science subjects > health and social care > health sciences > death and dying > death in culture > death rituals and ceremonies > sin eating
... > social science subjects > psychology > behavior mechanisms > human development > death and dying > death in culture > death rituals and ceremonies > sin eating
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sin eating  

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  • Sin eating is an English funerary custom of the 17th century, our knowledge of which rests heavily on the evidence of a single man, the antiquary John Aubrey (1626–1697). In his notes on folk beliefs and customs, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, he wrote: In the County of Hereford was an old Custome at funeralls to have poor people, who were to take upon them all the sinnes of the party deceased. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Sin Eating]

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