Motif
bread and salt on corpse as disputed sin-eating evidence
bread_and_salt_on_corpse_as_disputed_sin_eating_evidence
A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) CONTENTS / NOTE. OFFERINGS OF FIRST-FRUITS. / INDEX. / FOOTNOTES; lines 13496-13616 confidence: low
A reported authority for placing bread and salt on the breast of a corpse is said to have assumed it survived the custom of “sin-eating”; the passage says his evidence must be received with caution.
The passage mentions bread and salt on a corpse and the proposed connection to sin-eating, while warning that the evidence is uncertain.
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