Pungastafur
Pungastafur, the 'purse stave', is an Icelandic magical sign recorded in the Huld manuscript, compiled by Geir Vigfússon at Akureyri in 1860, and drawn so that money would not run short and the bearer's purse would stay heavy. It is one of the most sought-after of the money-and-luck galdrastafir, a domestic charm against poverty in a subsistence economy, drawn on paper and carried about the person or carved on a coin-purse. The name itself speaks to its purpose: 'pungi' is the Icelandic word for purse or scrotum, so the stave works on the same idea as the money-magic of the necropants, keeping