One of the most famous and unusual artifacts in the museum is a pair of “necropants,” also known as Nábrók in Icelandic. These are a pair of pants made from the skin of a dead man, believed to have magical properties. Wearing them was thought to bring the wearer great wealth.
A rock used in Viking sacrifice rituals found in “Goðdalur” – the Valley of Deity in Bjarnarfjörður valley in the Westfjords Region. Locals discovered the stone bowl in 2003 in an area where according to folklore was a heathen temple where Viking rituals involving blood sacrifices once took place. The rock was tested and results showed remnants of human blood on it.
The spell to control the weather. Methods to create storms are quite common in Icelandic grimoires and stories about those who did so are many in folktales. Sudden heavy storms were extremely dangerous for fishermen out at sea and a couple of men were prosecuted in the early 18th century for trying to whip up storms.
Tilberi – the milk-sucking demon:
Only women could create tilberi to amass butter. They would send the tilberi, which had mouths on both ends, to suckle on the cows of other farmers until it was filled with milk. It would then return to their “mother” and spit it into the churn for making butter.
The Seamouse spell. In former times all Icelandic wealth was concentrated in land ownership and in Westfiords one family of seminobles owned almost all the land. The common man had almost no chance of acquiring wealth except by supernatural means. One of them is to catch the carnivorous sea mouse (Aphrodita aculeata).
Spell to get the girl has its instructions on the photo.
Outside the museum, the statue of the Last witch burnt Sveinn Árnason – 1683 in Arngerðareyri in the Westfjords for having caused an illness that the daughter of Páll and Helga in Selárdalur suffered from.
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