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Tattoo art and design has been freely used in the practice of witchcraft and magic for thousands of years.

A tattooing, or the cutaneous pigmentation, is a mark made while inserting the dye in the skin for decorative or different reasons. Tattooings can be made on the human or animal skin. Decorative tattooings on the human ones are a type of modification of body, whereas tattooings on animals are generally used for the identification or to stigmatize.

Tattooing was practised in the whole world. Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, carried facial tattooings. Tattooing was widespread among the Polynesian people, and certain tribal groups Philippines, Borneo, Africa, North America, South America, Mesoamerica, Europe, Japan, Kampuchea and China. In spite of some taboos surrounding tattooing, art continues to be popular everywhere in the world.

Tattooing was an Eurasian practice since Neolithic periods. “Ötzi Iceman”, circa dated 3300 BEFORE JESUS CHRIST, supporting 57 tattooings: a cross on the interior of the left knee, six straight lines 15 centimetres length above the kidneys and the many small lines parallel along the lumbar, the legs and the ankles, showing possible therapeutic tattooings. The basin of Tarim indicated to several tattooed mummys of a physical type Western. Relatively the unknown always, some of them could date from the end of the 2nd millénium ECB.

Three tattooed the mummys were extracted starting from permafrost from Altaï in second half of the 20th century, the man of Pazyryk, during the Forties; a female mummy and a male in the plate of Ukok, during the Nineties. Their implied designs tattooing of animal carried out in a curvilinear model. The man of Pazyryk, a chief of clan of Scythian, is tattooed with a wide range and very detailed of the animals, monsters and series of points which aligned along the column spinale lumbar area and around ankle right .

It was thought that several of the kings of Anglo-Saxon of England were tattooed, but much of this was conjecture because first recorded the fact of the royalty being tattooed was the King Harold II (1022-1066). The body of Harold Godwinson was identified by its mistress Edith Swanneck, on the battle field at Hastings in 1066 by the words “Edith” and “England” tattooed on its trunk. William of Poitiers recorded the battle and noted that Harold was stripped of all the régalia and could not be identified by its face, only by her inscriptions of body.

Mr Martin Frobisher (1535-1595) which has on May 31, 1577 referred to on its second voyage of Harwich, England with 3 boats and approximately 120 men to find a passage of the North-West in China and the promise of gold Oregon Frobisher took with prisoner an indigenous man of Inuit and a woman with a child, on her return towards England the woman having tattooings on her chin and face was a great attraction at the court of Elizabeth I. Each of the three died in one month.

Between 1766 and 1779, captain James Cook made three voyages to the Pacific of the south, the last end of voyage with the death of the cook in Hawaii in February 1779. When the cook and his men returned to the house to Europe of their voyages to Polynésie, they told to tales of “tattooed savages” whom they had seen.

Made cook the leader of Science and the botanist of forwarding, Mr Joseph Banks, returned to England with a tattooing. The banks were a member strongly considered of the English aristocracy and had acquired its position with the cook by the setting to the top of what was then the princely sum of some books of ten-thousandth in forwarding. Alternatively, the cook brought back with him has tattooed the chief of Tahitian, which it submitted to King George and the English court. Several of the men of the cook, ordinary and marine sailors, returned with tattooings, a tradition which would become soon associated with the men with the sea in the spirit with the public and the pressure with the day. In the sailors and the sailors of process reintroduced the practice of tattooing in Europe and it drew aside quickly with the seaports around the sphere.

It was in Tahiti on board effort, in July of 1769, which makes cook initially remarkable its observations about the indigenous modification of body and is the initially recorded use of the tattooing of word. In the notation of the boat the cook recorded this entry: “The two sexes comb their Bodys, Tattow, because it is called in their language. This is done by inlaying the color of the black under their skins, in such a way as for is indelible. ”

The cook continued to write, “this method of Tattowing which I will describe now… because it is a painful operation, particularly Tattowing of their buttocks, it is carried out but once in their lives.”

The British royal court must be fascinated with tattooings of the chief of Tahitian, because the future King George V itself had encré with the “cross of Jerusalem” when it travelled to the Middle East in 1892. It also received a dragon on the front armlever of the needles of a Master acclaimed of tattooing during a visit in Japan. The wire of George, the duke of Clarence and the duke of York were tattooed also in Japan while being useful in the British Admiralty, solidifying what would become a tradition of family.

The catch of their wire sartorial of the British court, where Edouard VII followed the example of George V by obtaining tattooed; The King Frederick IX of Denmark, the king of Romania, Kaiser Wilhelm II, King Alexandre of Yugoslavia and even of the Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, all fôlatrés tattooings, good number of them refined and flowered interpretations of the royal coat of the arms or the royal peak of family. King Alfonso of modern Spain also had a tattooing.

Tattooing drew aside among the aristocratic classes everywhere Europe with the nineteenth century, but in particular in Great Britain where one estimated it in magazine of Harmsworth in 1898 that as much of while one in five members of people of the high society were tattooed. There, it was not rare that the members of the social elite to collect in the living rooms and the libraries of the large houses of field of country after dining and partially undress themselves in order to show in addition to their tattooings. Except its prince Albert of husband of Saxony-Cobourg and Gotha, there are persistent rumours that the Victoria Queen had a small tattooing in one not revealed “suggest” the place; King Frederick of Denmark was filmed showing his tattooings taken as a young sailor. The mother of Winston Churchill, Mrs Randolph Churchill, had a tattooing of a snake around her wrist, which it covered when the need was felt with a particularly wrought diamond bracelet. Perpetuating the tradition of family, Winston that Churchill had an anchor tattooed on his front armlever. In the majority of the Western countries tattooing a mark of the secondary culture of the remainders, and is usually carried out above less-often the exposed parts of the body.

Tattooings were useful like rites of passage, marks of statute and row, symbols of devotion chocolate éclair and spiritual, decorations for courage, attractions and sexual marks of fertility, engagements of the love, punishment, amulets and talismans, protection, and of marks of the outlaws, slaves and condemn. The symbolism and the impact of tattooings change in various places and cultures, sometimes with fortuitous consequences.

Today, people choose to be tattooed for reasons of beauty product, sentimental/commemorative, religious, and magic, and to symbolize to belong to them to or identification with the particular groups, including criminal troops (see criminal tattooings) but including also a particular ethnic group or a respectful secondary culture of the laws. Certain Maori always choose to carry the complex moko on their faces. In the Laotians, Kampuchea, and Thailand, the tattooing of will yantra is employed for protection against the evil.

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