Are necropants a real thing?

Publish date: 2024-08-07

Nábrók also called necropants or corpse britches, are a pair of pants made from a dead person’s skin that, in accordance with Icelandic witchcraft, have the ability to produce an endless stream of money.

Necropants, according to an Icelandic legend, were pants made from human flesh.
The skin would stick to the wearer’s legs like glue, with only a tiny part remaining undone. A magic rune and/or a penny taken from a widow would need to be placed in the pocket by the sorcerer.

You need to get permission from a living man to use his skin after his death in the ritual process of creating your own necropants, or nábrók in its original form.

You unearth his corpse after he has been buried in order to flay the skin from the waist down intact. The pants will stick to your skin as soon as you put them on. Nábrókarstafur, the magical symbol, must be written on paper and inserted into the scrotum with a penny obtained from a poor widow.

The original coin will therefore continue to suck money into the scrotum, making sure it is never empty, as long as it is left there.