Corpse cakes and sin-eating

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Death has inspired centuries of food traditions, many of them concerning the deceased's journey through the afterlife. Historian Helen Frisby, an expert on British folklore at the University of the West of England, describes the old English custom of sin-eating, and first how bread was made with an unusual tool - a corpse. (Picture: An 18th century Victorian funeral. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)