Dark Bjork
“Necropants”
The necropants, as they’re called, are at the center of a very strange legend that’s part of an exhibit at Iceland’s Holmavik Witchcraft and Sorcery Museum (a macabre little pit-stop where you can learn the stories of 17 people burned at the stake in the 17th century — for supposedly “occult” practices like cursing someone with uncontrollable farting). The necropants were made from the skin of the bottom half of a dead guy — but that’s not the weird part, if you can believe it. From Lonely Planet Iceland:
It was believed that the necropants would spontaneously produce money when worn, as long as the donor corpse had been stolen from a graveyard at the dead of night and a magic rune and a coin stolen from a poor widow were placed in the dead man’s scrotum. [Source]
cool
(via Estate Jewelry: The Horror | The Hairpin)
“This fantastic Victorian “poison ring” is 18k gold, with a central casket flanked by two ram’s heads (an occult symbol all their own). The casket, which is enameled in green and set with a large emerald, opens to reveal a sizeable inner chamber that would easily meet all your poison-storage needs.”
I love the occult!!!!!!the supernatural!!!!!!all that is aliens and ufos and missing people!!!!!all that is witches and candles and mirrors!!!!!!all that is ghosts and orbs and lights!!!!all that is shadow people and strange creatures!!!curses!!!!spells!!!!! WOW
pineapples in costa rica; taken with iPhone
Photographer: Marcel Van Der Vlugt