Motif
Corpse-associated ingestion transfers sin
corpse_associated_ingestion_transfers_sin
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) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 3621-3703 confidence: high
Frazer says Aubrey’s statement is supported by analogous Indian customs; at Tanjore, powdered bones of a dead Rajah and his wives are mixed with boiled rice and eaten by twelve paid Brahmans, with sins believed to pass into them.
The Indian examples describe bone powder, rice, milk, ghee, or food from a corpse’s hand being eaten, with sins believed to pass to the eater or the eater becoming outcast.
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