2x03, "The Sin Eater"

[jimsmyth]

When I was pregnant with my daughter, a colleague tried very hard to convince me to call the baby "Flash". He would ask after "little Flash" and it got to the point, with my pregnancy addled brain, that I could have considered it.

Fortunately, my husband put his foot down and she has a very traditional name that I love.

If I was lobbying for a child-name during the mother's pregnancy, I'd push for "Godot".

[John Campbell]

If I was lobbying for a child-name during the mother's pregnancy, I'd push for "Godot".

No, no, don't push yet. Wait.

[trinker]

When I was pregnant with my daughter, a colleague tried very hard to convince me to call the baby "Flash". He would ask after "little Flash" and it got to the point, with my pregnancy addled brain, that I could have considered it.

Fortunately, my husband put his foot down and she has a very traditional name that I love.

My new daughter's wombname was "Pending", and it was hard for the midwife to start calling her "Alexandra". Her older brother was "the Tykelet".  My all-time favorite, though, was the daughter of a friend, whom I christened "Ember" because her father's surname is Cole.

[Elizabeth Bear]

My new daughter's wombname was "Pending", and it was hard for the midwife to start calling her "Alexandra". Her older brother was "the Tykelet".  My all-time favorite, though, was the daughter of a friend, whom I christened "Ember" because her father's surname is Cole.

<3

[Edmund Schweppe]

I hadn't realized that sin-eating was also practiced on the other side of the pond. From the BBC:

The restored grave of the last known "sin-eater" in England has been at the centre of a special service in a Shropshire village churchyard.

Campaigners raised £1,000 to restore the grave of Richard Munslow, who was buried in Ratlinghope in 1906.

Sin-eaters were generally poor people paid to eat bread and drink beer or wine over a corpse, in the belief they would take on the sins of the deceased.

Frowned upon by the church, the custom mainly died out in the 19th Century.

It was prevalent in the Marches, the land around the England-Wales border, and in north Wales, but was rarely carried out anywhere else.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-11360659

[kayjayoh]

Totally OT but...BTW, "this video was removed by user"....does anyone recall what song they are talking about in the LJ thread your Hafs Anne Rice quote comes from?

[saoba]

When I was pregnant with my daughter, a colleague tried very hard to convince me to call the baby "Flash". He would ask after "little Flash" and it got to the point, with my pregnancy addled brain, that I could have considered it.

Fortunately, my husband put his foot down and she has a very traditional name that I love.

If I was lobbying for a child-name during the mother's pregnancy, I'd push for "Godot".

My late brother would cheerfully tell anyone who asked if they'd picked out a baby name they were going to call it Throckmorten. Further, he would insist this was true no matter who asked or how often they said no, really, what names are you looking at?

As he told me, that way no matter what they actually did name the baby people would be too relieved to complain.