NorsePlay.

Inspired by the dark, dark Icelandic magical practice of making a pact with someone who will allow you to dig their body up, flawlessly skin their lower half and immediately wear that second epidermis over your own, then activate that skin by stealing a coin from a poor widow to place in its scrotum with a magic stave which will then always generate more coins invisibly stolen from those around you, the ritual of which the Necro Pants pedal grabs its name from. Known as the Nábrók from the 17th century Icelandic grimoire  Galdrabók , this effects pedal 's namesake and artful outline is taken from the hanging legs at the Galdrasýning á Ströndum (Museum of Sorcery & Witchcraft) in Hólmavík, where the exhibit has a reproduction of the necropants in a case. While one might perhaps imagine a semi- draugr -like dry skin-rubbing/chafing shuffle sound from wearing them, this effect pedal's been characterized as a filthy ripped speaker garage fuzz sound, which also seems invasivel...

In 1975 CE, master writer  Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina, writes The Disk , a very short story that explores the NorsePlay of an additional Odinic magical item of curious qualities. I'm linking the following reading so you can enjoy this strange tale and so I can discuss it afterwards: Great, right?!? (Wait, you don't do audiobooks? Then go read it here , and come back.) So if we look at Borges' story though the greater context of the Norse Lore, there's the oddity of the Disk Of Odin itself, and its impossible one-sided-ness. We have to ask why Odin needed such a thing made in the first place. If the old man's reason is correct, then its singular quality provides an irrefutable proof of kingship , though not a guarantee of one, since the exiled old man Isern only has the object and not his kingdom. There's an Odinic quality in the old man's blindness (which also meta-reflexes into Borges' own single-functioning eye into a later complete blindness). T...