Warning: Picture below is of graphic nature!
Apparently, a pair of pants are enough to tempt those who seek wealth.
Pants made from real human skin are currently on display at an Iceland museum.
The pants, which have been dubbed “necropants”, are part of a 17th-century tradition that says a person will have good luck if they wear a deceased person’s lower half.
“The necropants on display are a replica, from a mold made from a man (except the most intimate part, which is made up),” Anna Björg Þórarinsdóttir, owner of the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft, said. “But the necropants were believed to bring wealth to the one who wore them and in Icelandic grimoires and folklore there are descriptions on how to make them.”
Several Icelandic tales have the making of necropants as a type of dark magic that was persecuted during Iceland’s Age of Fire from 1654 and 1690.
The pants originated from a deal that was brokered by two friends that, upon the death of one, the other would use the other person’s skin to create the nightmarish pants.
The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft is the only known location with a pair of intact pants and initially put them on display in 2013.
The pants must be made with the skin still intact with no holes or scratches. The sorcerer then stepping into the skin will immediately become one with his own.
“A coin must be stolen from a poor widow, either at Christmas, Easter, or Whitsunday [a Christian festival on the seventh Sunday after Easter] and kept in the scrotum,” explained Þórarinsdóttir. “It will then draw money from living persons and the scrotum will never be empty when the sorcerer checks.”
Þórarinsdóttir explained that if a person wants to pass on their lucky streak, there is a certain way the pants must be passed from user to user.
“However, his spiritual well-being is at risk unless he gets rid of the necropants before he dies. If he dies with the pants on, his body will become infested with lice as soon as he passes away,” Þórarinsdóttir said.
“The sorcerer must therefore find somebody that is willing to take the pants and put his leg into the right leg before the sorcerer steps out of the left one. The pants will keep on drawing money for generations of owners.”
I am appalled you would find this newsworthy. Disgusting!
I’m in agreement with you Jayne! Evil!