The Consumption Ritual

Roman: People were coming up with all sorts of folklore over the past three years to try to come up with a possible solution. So maybe we're getting a little too far afield, but to circle back, you mentioned a consumption ritual. Was this a practice undergone by someone who was, let's say, told that they had consumption, then they would go about this ritual to maybe cure themselves? What did that entail? Well, the ritual itself, because it's part of folklore, if there are different variants of how to do it. But basically, there were several acts that he had to perform,. mainly around looking for a dead relative who might be responsible in some way for the

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