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Person who consumes a ritual meal for the deceased

A sin eater is a person who consumes a ritual meal in order to spiritually take on the sins of a deceased person. The food was believed to absorb the sins of a recently dead person, thus absolving the soul of the person. Cultural anthropologists and folklorists classify sin eating as a form of ritual. It is most commonly associated with Scotland, Ireland, Wales, English counties bordering Wales, and Welsh culture.

William Sharp, writing as Fiona Macleod, published a weird tale entitled "The Sin Eater" in 1895. "The Sin Eater" is an episode of Suspense (radio drama) which originally aired on July 8, 1962. The setting is rural Appalachia, with characters of Welsh heritage. "The Sins of the Fathers", a 1972 episode of the American television series Night Gallery, features Richard Thomas as a sin eater in medieval Wales. Published in 1977 by Duckworth Books, The Sin Eater was the first of British writer Alice Thomas Ellis's many novels. It "exposed the hidden rancours of Irish, Welsh and English," in the words of journalist and writer Clare Colvin. Writing for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Abby Geni comments, "The story orbits around the Captain, a failing patriarch, and the family who have gathered at his bedside. There are no ghosts or disembodied voices here. Instead, lovely Rose organises meals and cricket matches. Angela, visiting from out of town, vies with Rose for control of the proceedings. Awkward Ermyn searches for her place in the group. Servants lurk on the sidelines. The story is ripe with shadows and terror. An unclassifiable menace seeps through the book like a fog." The 1978 TV miniseries The Dark Secret of Harvest Home features a funeral scene wherein all the mourners in attendance avert their faces as a repudiated fellow designated the sin eater dines upon a symbolic meal, which includes a coin pressed into a cheese, thereby taking the deceased's transgressions in life upon himself. Sin Eater is the name of a Marvel Comics villain. Margaret Atwood wrote a short story titled "The Sin Eater". It was dramatised by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in their radio series Anthology in 1981. Sin Eater is the title of a 2020 mystery novel by Megan Campisi set in an alternate Elizabethan England. In Patrick O’Brian's novel Master and Commander, set aboard a 19th century British navy ship, the crew learns that a new shipmate was once a sin eater, and immediately begin to shun and persecute him. To protect him, the ship's doctor, Stephen Maturin, gives him a post as his assistant. The 2003 movie The Order is a fictional horror story revolving around the investigation of the suspicious death of an excommunicated priest and the discovery of a sin eater headquartered in Rome. The 2004 movie The Final Cut is set in a world where memories are recorded, and then "cut" into positive hagiographies on the person's death; the "cutters" are referred to as sin eaters. The 2007 film The Last Sin Eater tells the story of a community of Welsh immigrants in Appalachia, 1850. The sin eater of the community is seen through the eyes of ten year old Cadi Forbes. In the film The Bourne Legacy (2012), a central character who leads a US government black ops program describes himself and his team as sin eaters, doing the "morally indefensible" but absolutely necessary thing, "so that the rest of our cause can stay pure." The American TV show Sleepy Hollow used the term Sin Eater as the title of Season 1, episode 6, as a way to introduce another character on the show that is a sin eater. The American TV show Lucifer used the term Sin Eater as the title of season 2, episode 3, to refer to the content moderation employees of a fictional social media company. The American TV show Arrow did so too in the season 5, episode 14, referring to a flash back story of Anatoli Knyazev telling Oliver Queen he acts as a sin eater. In the American TV show Succession, Gerri, Waystar Royco's general counsel, suggests to Tom Wambsgans that he become the family sin eater and destroy evidence of illegal activities aboard the company's cruise lines, "Have you ever heard of the sin cake eater? He would come to the funeral and he would eat all the little cakes they’d lay out on the corpse. He ate up all the sins. And you know what? The sin cake eater was very well paid. And so long as there was another one who came along after he died, it all worked out. So this might not be the best situation, but there are harder jobs and you get to eat [an amazing amount] of cake." The White Wolf publishing company's role playing game Geist: The Sin Eaters is named for the concept, though it never directly references the actual ritual practice. The comic series Finder features a main character who is a sin eater, and thus despised by his mother's culture as the lowest member of their society. In the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers, sin eaters are recurring hostile entities that aim to devour all living beings in The First, mindless monsters driven by insatiable hunger for living aether. The stronger sin eaters are capable of "forgiving" the creatures they attack, gruesomely and permanently mutating them into newborn sin eaters. Most of these creatures tend to be named as "forgiven" sins (Forgiven Cowardice, Forgiven Cruelty, Forgiven Hypocrisy, etc.). The strongest sin eaters are known as Lightwardens. In A Breath of Snow and Ashes, the sixth book in the Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon, Roger Wakefield presides over the funeral of Hiram Crombie's mother in law, Mrs. Wilson, where a sin eater makes an appearance. The Sin Eater's Daughter is a YA fantasy novel written by Melinda Salisbury which includes a version of the practice and was published on February 24, 2015. "My Soul’s Demise", a song by Blackbriar, is about the dread of a sin eater. In the American TV anthology Fargo season 5, episode 3, a flashback portrays a possible sixteenth century incarnation of the character Ole Munch as being a sin eater, definitively confirmed by his further declarations in the finale, episode 10, entitled "Bisquik".