SC - meals for the eating of sins?

[Tollhase1 at aol.com]

Greetings all,

When I was thinking about the discussions about funeral feasts, I remembered 
reading about the custom of sin eaters years ago in distant 
lifetime(teenager).  People whom were hired to eat the sins of the departed 
so that they could go to heaven or some sort of pleasant afterlife.  This was 
symbolized by eating food off of or by the body of the departed.  (Don't go 
there) I believe that this was/is(?) a welsh custom.

I am curious how much of this may be fact?  I am also curious about what 
period foods were eaten during all Hallows eve both from a Christian 
Standpoint and that of pagan persona during early period.  I forget what the 
Celtic holiday at that time.

Lord Frederich Holstein der Tollhase.
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