These pants are to die for?
Trousers replicating those crafted 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, Newsweek reported.
“I will have to burst the bubble that 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 to 1690.
According to the museum, the pants allegedly 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.
According to Þórarinsdóttir, 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,” she claimed.
“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,” according to an expert. Sigurdur Atlason“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.
She claimed, “It will then draw money from living persons, and the scrotum will never be empty when the sorcerer checks.”
The Post reached out to the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft for comment.
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.”
