Hólmavík – Museum of Sorcery & Witchcraft
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The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft in the Westfjords — Iceland's centre of 17th century witch trials, with displays including stave magic and the notorious Nábrók (necropants).
The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft in the Westfjords — Iceland's centre of 17th century witch trials. Displays include stave magic, animal magic and the notorious Nábrók (necropants) — a particularly grisly form of dark magic requiring the skin of a freshly dead man. Twenty men were burned at the stake for witchcraft in Iceland; only one woman.
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