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{{quote|''I made dress from a choir girl's skin.
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* In the first ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' film, the alien villain spends most of the movie wearing the skin of Edgar, a farmer he killed and skinned.
* The ''Necronomicon'' as seen in the ''[[Evil Dead]]'' movies is bound in human skin, with the face forming the front cover.
* In ''[[Terrifier]]'', Vicky arrives to take Tara and Dawn home but is lured into the basement by Art. There, she discovers what she believes is an injured Tara, but it is actually Art, who had severely mutilated the Cat Lady and is wearing her scalp and breasts.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In ''[[Our Man in Havana]]'' the local police chief, Captain Segura, is rumored to carry a cigarette case made of human skin. {{spoiler|It's true, though to make it slightly justifiable, the skin came from the guy who murdered his father}}.
== [[Live
* The Slitheen from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' masquerade as humans by killing overweight humans and wearing their skins.
* The third part of the Reaver M.O. in ''[[Firefly]]'' (the first two being raping people to death and eating their flesh, and if you're lucky it's in that order) is sewing their victims' skins to their clothing.
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== [[Music]] ==
* The singer of "Be My Friend" by [[One-Eyed Doll]] makes a dress out of a girl's skin.
* The final verse of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX8KJJh86YU "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"] by [[Rolf Harris]]:
{{quote|''"Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred.
''Tan me hide when I'm dead.
''So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde,
''And that's it hangin' on the shed!}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* One of the plastinated figures in the "Body Worlds" museum exhibit is of a peeled human body holding its own skin.
* Gaius Flaminius wore a gallic scalp attached to his helmet. Unsurprisingly, when the
* The [[Yakuza]] are well known for their full-body tattoos, an expensive and painful way they show their affiliation to their leaders. What isn't as widely known is, when a such a Yakuza is killed by a rival gang (or occasionally, [[You Have Failed Me|his own gang]]) the victim is often skinned, his skin preserved in some way, and the tattooed skin [[Dead Guy on Display|displayed in some private museum]], often after being sold on the black market.
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