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Post by Joanna on Oct 27, 2013 22:36:40 GMT -5
Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft has Pair of 'Necropants' on DisplayMagic “necropants” (“corpse britches”) on display at the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft were made in the 17th century from a dead man’s skin and are supposed to bring good luck. According to legend, sorcerers would strike a deal and when one of their number died, his skin would be fashioned into a pair of trousers to be used for magical purposes. The pants, currently on display at the Museum in Holmavik, are of human skin that was stripped from a corpse in one piece.
For the pants to work their magic, the wearer had to steal a coin from a widow and store it in the scrotum of the trousers next to a magical sign called a nábrókarstafur. The coin was a “tool to gather wealth by supernatural means.” The skin from which the pants were constructed would then stick to the wearer’s own flesh. “They would immediately be stuck with your own flesh and be part of your body,” said a museum spokesman. “People would be able to use them as long as they lived, but they would have to get rid of them before they died. If they could find someone to take them over, they could last forever,” the spokesman added.
Source: Evan Bleier, UPI, October 25, 2013.
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Post by chris on Oct 28, 2013 23:57:21 GMT -5
This is just about the weirdest thing that I've ever heard of!
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Post by natalie on Oct 29, 2013 10:19:36 GMT -5
Gross.
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Post by jane on Oct 29, 2013 11:13:15 GMT -5
Wiccans have whitewashed magic. A lot of the things used by real witches, sorcerers and magicians of the past would be classified as gross by today's standards.
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Post by Sam on Nov 1, 2013 22:03:19 GMT -5
Is this one of the reasons that people who call themselves real witches, or that know about real witchcraft, think that Wiccans are just playing at being witches?
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Post by jane on Nov 3, 2013 3:38:09 GMT -5
It's one of the reasons that I think that Wiccans are just playing. Real witchcraft doesn't have anything to do with being peace loving, loving animals, being vegan, doing what you wilt and it harm none, three fold destiny, or worshiping sky clad. Gerald Gardner was a dirty old man and he came up with all that nonsense. All those things that Wiccans try to say is a part of their religion are really just personal preferences and don't have anything to do with witchcraft.
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Post by kitty on May 23, 2023 14:22:08 GMT -5
I don't remember seeing this when it was posted years ago, but now that I have seen it, does anyone know why anyone thought wearing pants of human skin would bring good luck?
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Post by Kate on May 23, 2023 23:02:47 GMT -5
I don't remember seeing this when it was posted years ago, but now that I have seen it, does anyone know why anyone thought wearing pants of human skin would bring good luck? |
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