The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft in Holmavik, Iceland houses a replica of a pair of necropants, trousers made from the skin of a dead person worn in the 17th century.
Seventeenth-century sorcerers believed that wearing necropants would bring them wealth and luck. Upon donning a pair of necropants, the wearer and the pants were believed to become one.
"They would immediately be stuck with your own flesh and be part of your body," a spokesperson for the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft told the Daily Mail. "People would be able to use them as long as they lived, but they would have to get rid of them before they die. If they would find someone to take them over the pants could last forever."
The spokesman added that the wearing of the necropants was "unusual behaviour," but stories say people would wear them for as long as they lived — though they had to bequeath them to a willing recipient before they died.
If the sorcerer who wore the pants did not pass them on before his own death, it was said that his body would become infected with lice as soon as he passed away. If the trousers were passed on, they would purportedly bring wealth to future wearers.
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