In Elizabeth Walter’s story “The Sin-Eater,” Clive Tomlinson gets more than he bargained for on a trip to the Welsh Border to see and sketch an old pre-Reformation church. On his way back to his hotel, he is waylaid by a couple on a farm who are oddly insistent that he visit their ill son, Eddie. Clive quickly realizes that Eddie is dead, and he rushes through drinking some wine and eating a scone under pressure from the older couple. Later, he learns he took part in a sin-eating ritual, something the modern world has left behind. But, since he was unaware of what he was doing and doesn’t believe in it, he couldn’t possibly be affected by the ritual, could he?
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