I was with them until this part:
while in the Balkan peninsula a small bread image of the deceased is made and eaten by the survivors of the family.
That crosses over into ‘what the fuck is wrong with you people’ territory.
In this house voodoo effigies are for eating only not burning.
I dunno, adding gingerbread yous as a party favor to your funeral sounds absolutely fantastic. Every funeral I’ve been to would have been improved by gingerbread people of whoever died.
I was thinking more “Dave’s face made out of bread” than “gingerbread Dave.” I guess the latter doesn’t seem bad.
Like a photorealistic bread mould. Of a screaming face.
I would attend that funeral
With a playful strawberry jam filling that gushes out of its eyes and mouth when you bite into it
I’d eat that up for sure, especially if it’s like a glazed donut.
Oh man there’s a business idea for someone. Horrific pastries. Imagine biting into a glazed realistic colon filled with elderberry jam. A liver with lemon filling. And many various body parts filled with something red like strawberry or cherry.
You have to catch them first
Right? Who eats bread-body without blood-wine?
Everyone knows that bloodwine is for pairing with gagh, not puny p-taq bread
And the notion of sin, or of eating said sin, didn’t give you pause?
Curious.
The first doesn’t give me pause because it’s pretty engrained into virtually all of Western society. The second… well that’s sort of the whole point of Catholic communion, isn’t it?
In Master and Commander, the first book in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian, a former sin eater is abused by his shipmates out of prejudice. It’s an interesting subplot in an excellent book.
The Royal Navy hated pirates, but I count them among my shipmates.
There was a really intriguing subplot based around this ritual in the latest season of Fargo
Oh yeah and that dude was like 509 years old. But that was never explained how or why he lived so long.
Turns out sin is very very nutritious
But also all the fargo seasons have some underexplained supernatural phenomenon
Wasn’t there a movie with Heath Ledger about that?
The Order.
The Martyr Made podcast has a Great episode on how Cannibalism evolved into the rituals we follow today. Sin eating feels like a direct descendant.
Would recommend if you have 3+hrs!
https://www.martyrmade.com/featured-podcasts/human-sacrifice-and-cannibalism
(Spotify link) https://open.spotify.com/episode/6vycbiPKo6dddYQVYw5HLE
Huh that’s interesting
