Folkways: The Folklore of Britain and Ireland
Jul 12, 2026 · 36 min · 11 segments
England is full of history… but so much has been forgotten. In this video I sit down with Jack from Past and Curious to uncover the stories that have faded from time. We talk sin eating, the first…
Her mother opened the door.
The little girl peered through to see a man standing in the road.
He was long and lean, with an ugly, wild face.
His clothes were rags.
His hair was long, grey and unkempt.
Her mother brought a stool for him to sit on.
He faced the door of the house.
The little girl was ushered outside.
Her grandmother's body was brought out and placed on the funeral wagon beside the wild man.
Her mother reached across the body and passed the man the maple bowl, a loaf of bread, and a coin.
His dirty fingers grasped the coin, concealing it about his person.
Then he took the bread and the maple bowl, tearing chunks from the loaf with his teeth between gulps of beer, all the while facing the door of the house.
It was clearly the first meal he had eaten in days.
Once he had finished, he mumbled some words over the corpse and bowed his head.
The body was taken to the church to be buried.
The maple bowl was thrown into the fire.
Who was that wild man? The girl asked later.
And he was taking the sins of your grandmother to stop her from walking now that she's passed on.
So I wanted to get to some of the, basically, the content of your work.
Jack is quite a prolific creator, but he's done some interesting work on what I'd call the creepier aspects of folklore and the concept of sin eating, which he did a recent video on.
To someone who's never heard of sin eating, what are we talking about? And you visited the last place, I believe, that...
this was linked to.
So what was it like being there?
Her mother opened the door.
The little girl peered through to see a man standing in the road.
He was long and lean, with an ugly, wild face.
His clothes were rags.
His hair was long, grey and unkempt.
Her mother brought a stool for him to sit on.
He faced the door of the house.
The little girl was ushered outside.
Her grandmother's body was brought out and placed on the funeral wagon beside the wild man.
Her mother reached across the body and passed the man the maple bowl, a loaf of bread, and a coin.
His dirty fingers grasped the coin, concealing it about his person.
Then he took the bread and the maple bowl, tearing chunks from the loaf with his teeth between gulps of beer, all the while facing the door of the house.
It was clearly the first meal he had eaten in days.
Once he had finished, he mumbled some words over the corpse and bowed his head.
The body was taken to the church to be buried.
The maple bowl was thrown into the fire.
Who was that wild man? The girl asked later.
And he was taking the sins of your grandmother to stop her from walking now that she's passed on.
So I wanted to get to some of the, basically, the content of your work.
Jack is quite a prolific creator, but he's done some interesting work on what I'd call the creepier aspects of folklore and the concept of sin eating, which he did a recent video on.
To someone who's never heard of sin eating, what are we talking about? And you visited the last place, I believe, that...
this was linked to.
So what was it like being there?
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