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Where did the sorcerers live who practiced dressing pants from human skin?

In the Icelandic Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, so-called "necropants" are on display, made from the flayed skin of the lower body of a dead man. To get them, the Icelandic sorcerer had to obtain the consent of a person during his lifetime, and after death, dig up the body from the grave and tear off the skin in one piece. Then the ritual demanded to steal a coin from the widow and put the necropants in the scrotum along with a special sign drawn on a piece of paper.

It was believed that wearing such pants would allow you to get rich quickly.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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What does the word kangaroo mean in Aboriginal language?

No, it doesn't mean "I don't know" - whatever the countless websites and all sorts of "educational" books say, citing this case as "the most amusing example of cultural misunderstanding."

The real story is even more interesting. In the 700th century, there were at least 250 indigenous tribes in Australia, and they spoke XNUMX languages.

The word "kangaroo" (or "gangaroo") came to us from the language of the Guugu-Yimithirr tribe, who lived in the Botany Bay region, where it means a large gray or black kangaroo, Macropus robustus. As English settlers moved inland, they used the word to refer to any adult kangaroo or wallaby.

Another Aboriginal tribe - the Bagandi - lived 2250 km from Botany Bay and did not speak Guugo-Yimithirr. The natives heard a new word from the British and decided that it meant "an animal that no one had ever heard of before."

And since the Bagandis had never seen horses before, they (quite logically) used the word "kangaroo" to describe these "outlandish" creatures.

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