Carla Valentine

Carla Valentine Instagram – NECROPANTS! 💀👖💀 It’s spooky season and the Carlaween Countdown continues so I had to post an “oldie but a goodie”. This is one of the weirder human remains stories I’ve come across. It’s a pair of trousers made from human skin called ‘necropants’ or ‘nabrok’ in Icelandic, and they’re displayed in Strandagaldur which is Iceland’s Museum of Sorcery & Witchcraft. Necropants come from 17th century folklore. It was said that if you made some you’d be rich for the rest of your life. The process involved getting permission from someone ALIVE to use their skin after death (quite nice to have consented necromancy – that would satisfy the HTA…) but still you’d need to dig him up post mortem and flay the leg skin to make the trousers. Then you’d have to put them on and shove a couple of items in the scrotal sack: a coin stolen from a widow (like she hasn’t suffered enough!) and also a magic symbol – a nabrokarstafur – written on paper. The trousers will then gruesomely stick to your own skin but it’s worth it as the scrotum will constantly fill with gold…. or so the legend goes… (These are replicas: not real skin). I discussed “5 items made from human remains on the podcast @hardcorelisting a while back (part of the @distractionpiecesnetwork) so I’ll put the link in my stories if you want to hear more
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https://shows.acast.com/hardcorelisting/episodes/top5thingsmadeoutofhumanbodyparts-specialguestcarlavalentine
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