For hundreds of years throughout the British Isles, mourning families hired sin eaters to "consume" their loved ones' unconfessed sins by eating a meal they had placed on the chest of the corpse.
For hundreds of years, sin eaters would symbolically consume and absolve the sins of the newly deceased by eating bread and drinking beer that had been left to sit on their corpse.
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