# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Sin-eater: lives and afterlives - Dr Helen Frisby - Zoom
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 01 Nov, 2026 at 08:00 pm – Sun, 01 Nov, 2026 at 09:30 pm (+00:00)
- **Event Description**: The Sin-eater: lives and afterlives

A sin-eater was a ‘long, leane, ugly, lamentable poor raskal’ (Aubrey, 1687) who, by eating a special meal over the coffin, consumed a dead person’s sins and thus helped them enter heaven. In this talk Dr Helen Frisby surveys the historical evidence for this fascinating old funerary character and their mysterious rituals in service of the souls of the dead. As it turns out, things aren’t quite what they might first seem - but Helen will suggest that it’s the sin-eater’s very elusiveness within the historical record which has enabled them to rise again in present-day film, TV and literature.

Bio

Dr Helen Frisby has taught history at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and funeral directing at the University of Bath where she’s also a Visiting Research Fellow . Hon. Secretary of The Folklore Society , Helen has appeared on The History Channel and BBC radio. She continues to research and publish on topics relating to death, funerals and bereavement, past and present.

Curated & Hosted by

Marguerite Johnson is a cultural historian of the ancient Mediterranean, specialising in sexuality and gender, particularly in the poetry of Sappho, Catullus, and Ovid, as well as magical traditions in Greece, Rome, and the Near East. She also researches Classical Reception Studies, with a regular focus on Australia. In addition to ancient world studies, Marguerite is interested in sexual histories in modernity as well as magic in the west more broadly, especially the practices and art of Australian witch, Rosaleen Norton. She is Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History at The University of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She lives in Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesvos.

Image is: ‘Two Old Ones Eating Soup or Two Witches’ by Francisco Goya (1823). Public domain courtesy of Wikimedia.

don’t worry if you miss it – we will send you a recording valid for two weeks the next day
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london-united-kingdom/the-sin-eater-lives-and-afterlives-dr-helen-frisby-zoom/200030679200712
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 18

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- **city**: London, United Kingdom
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, London, UK,London, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom

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