5/21/2023 0 Comments Sin Eater by Megan Campisi![]() This Welsh custom’s particulars are elusive. The folklore of sin eaters was the whispered inspiration for my debut novel, The Sin Eater. ![]() The story changes a bit with each telling – meaning shifts, sometimes becoming shrouded or lost – until the story is a delicious tangle of history, invention, and magic. This is what folklore is to me: A game of telephone in which pieces of cultural history are whispered across time from generation to generation. It was enough, young as we were, to make us laugh with joy and wonder at the magical transformation we had wrought on something as simple as words. The phrase was always ridiculously transformed. That girl would whisper what she heard to the next girl, and on around the circle until the final girl would triumphantly announce what she heard to the group. It began with one girl whispering a phrase to the girl next to her. As children, my friends and I would sit in a circle and play a game called telephone. ![]()
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