Talk:Sin-eater

Tell me more
Can someone tell me more about The Sin Eater? This info here is not enough. Please discuss it here and i'll be very happy to learn more about it.
 * Perhaps you want the film. Rich  Farmbrough 00:05, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Are there still sin eaters today? Yes there are my father inadvertantly raised me into one. Baisically I am able to ingest the negative eneregies with in a person and digest and or prossess them into something that I can subsist and sustaian myself upon. To my knowledge there are very few of us out there(we are being systematically eradicated form the populace because of the threats we pose. Know this I can eat pain and am able to bless any object I wish, the forces of evil are stong in this world, and my kind are a dying breed. We need help.  We are out there amongst you you may have even passed us on the street and you never knew it.  But just know this we are fighting for all, and if we fail the universe falls with us.  HELP!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sineater333 (talk • contribs) 14:35, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Loblolly boy
What? Rich  Farmbrough 00:07, 20 November 2005 (UTC)why are you saying  why  dumb weirdo sin eaters live today awesome 12:50 12\2/2013 monday

GodHandNation
what is it that you want to know??? their is alot to be said about sin eaters.

what do you want to know... there is alot say about sin eaters... what type of infomation are you looking for??

Missing the obvious
The author of this article states: The act of being a sin-eater was considered a cardinal sin by the Roman Catholic Church because it purported to provide absolution outside the sacramental purview of the priesthood, and resulted in immediate excommunication.[citation needed]

Yes, true. But Jesus Christ offered His life for our sins so by participating in sin-eating, one is excommunicating themselves by not accepting Jesus' sacrifice. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by LizaRatte (talk • contribs) 01:00, 2 January 2007 (UTC).

Sin Eaters
Sin Eaters are very much alive today. Sin eating did not die out in the 1850s as it is believed. One can merely go to Spain and France, and find La Sanch/La Sang which is French/Spanish for "The Blood". La Sanch/La Sang are known to practice sin eating. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.94.94.176 (talk) 07:06, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Sin-Eater vs. Sin Eater
Why is the term written with a hyphen throughout the body of the article when none of the references use this spelling? I don't know what the ramifications are of changing the title of an article so I cannot make the change but it appears to be an error. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomwill2000 (talk • contribs) 21:18, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Questions, Questions
(1) Who or what is or was "Howlett"? (2) Why say "A cached page of a LoveToKnow Project, a reference project based on the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica," instead of just "the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica"? (3) If there still are sin-eaters, whether in France, Spain or anywhere else, it seems odd that nobody has added them to the article. Could it be because there's no reliable source for the claim? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.76.82.45 (talk) 18:57, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

X-Files
You might want to add this to the popular culture references: The X-Files episode titled "The Gift" revolved around the mith of the sin eater.

As did a Night Gallery episode. --The_Iconoclast (talk) 06:00, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

More Pop Culture (SPOILER)
I came to this page because of a comment on The Blacklist television series. Reddington (the main character) says he is a sin eater. (Finale episode of season 2.) It is more of a criminal underworld reference than a ritual, magical thing. Thought maybe someone would want to expand this page (or some other page or whatever) to include that kind of sin eater.

—64.20.197.115 (talk) 17:50, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Good sources here
There's a very well-sourced writeup on Reddit. I will copy the list of sources here since it might be useful. I made a small edit to the article, but there's more to be done.

/r/AskHistorians/comments/6yinfj/what_were_sineaters_and_when_did_the_tradition/

"Friday, August 28th: Evening Meeting." Archaeologia Cambrensis NS12, October 1852

"Literary and art notes." In The Red Dragon III:3 (1883)

“Folklore Miscellanea.” In Folklore 3:4 (1893)

G.M. Godden, “Mr. Hartland’s ‘Sin-Eater’ and Primitive Sacraments.” In Folklore, 3:4 (1893)

E. Sidney Hartland, “The Sin-Eater.” In Folklore, 3:2 (1892)

Thomas Hearne [ed], Joannis Lelandi Antiquarii De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea (1770)

Gertrude Hope, “The Sin-Eater.” In Folklore 3:4 (1893)

Karin Kvideland, "Boundaries and the Sin-Eater." In Hilda Davidson [ed], Boundaries and Thresholds: Papers from a Colloquium of the Katharine Briggs Club (1993)

E.M. Leather, The Folk-Lore of Herefordshire Collected from Oral and Printed Sources (1912)

James Napier. Folk Lore: Or, Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland Within This Century (1879)

Enid Porter, “Some folk beliefs of the fens.” In Folklore 69:2 (1958)

Askew Roberts, "The Sin-Eater." In The Red Dragon, III:5 (1883)

J. Rowlands, "The sin-eater in Wales." Carmathenshire Notes 1:3 (1889)

Jacqueline Simpson, "Sin-Eating." In Bryant and Peck [eds], Encyclopedia of Death and Human Experience (2009)

N. W. Thomas, "The sin-eater in Wales." Bye-Gones, 13 November 1895 Temerarius (talk) 18:12, 6 April 2019 (UTC)