14 DAY TRIAL // Halloween is right around the corner, and thousands of people are bending over backwards trying to find the right costume to scare the life out of friends, family and strangers they chance to meet on the street.
Still, no Halloween costume will ever be as frightening as a pair of so-called necropants presently on display at a museum in Iceland.
These pants, pictured above, date back to the 17th century and are made from actual human legs.
That's right, some really twisted individual stripped the skin off some guy's legs (behind and reproductive organs included) and used it to make himself trousers.
Word has it that, hundreds of years ago, it was common practice among sorcerers in Iceland to ask for permission from a close friend to turn him into a pair of pants after his death. Oddly enough, this friend agreed to let them do so.
The sorcerer who came to own such trousers was supposed to wear them on a daily basis and not just leave them hanging in the closet.
“They would immediately be stuck with your own flesh and be part of your body,” a spokesperson for the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft in Holmavik, Iceland explains, as cited by Daily Mail.
Interestingly enough, necropants wearers were convinced that, by placing a coin stolen from a widow and a piece of paper showing a magical symbol on it inside the pants, they would attract wealth into their lives.