So many people like tattoos … different persons follow the fashion. I am going to tell you in a nutshell – how long ago they have arisen and what you should be afraid of when applying a tattoo.
In the ancient Greece and Rome slaves and criminals were marked with tattoos. But they tried to get rid of the stamp by any means.
Before that time drawings on the body were common practice among the ancient Slavs. Though they were part of the magic rituals devoted to a fertility cult.
There is also information that in the pre-revolutionary Russia some noblemen marked their children with the family symbols. They were applied on the body in the hidden parts, as a rule - on a hip or an underarm by the use of so-called secret seal. All secret symbols had certain characteristics – for example, the Russian letters were replaced with the Latin ones, the numerals were inverted.
The branding iron was stored in a safe place and the family members didn't show it to anybody, except for a tattoo artist. Not only legitimate heirs were marked with such signs but also bastards if the parents wanted to recognize them. Allegedly, the secret signs allowed these people to confirm their membership of this or that noble clan over time and to have a claim, say, on legacy or family wealth.
In Europe sailors were the first to cover them with tattoos.
Read through the publications on the meaning of hieroglyphs carefully. There were cases when people had tattooed the word "demon" and were dogged by horrible misfortunes.
Dangerous tattoo pictures are the portraits of dead people. Featuring people with a hard lot can attract the same troubles to you. Even if you are fan of Michael Jackson or Marilyn Monroe, resist the temptation "to wear" their photos on your body.
They say that the picture of a RAVEN may lead to death of the tattoo owner. If you don’t want to be dogged by misfortunes, avoid getting a tattoo with the Nefertiti's portrait.
It has been observed that people with the tattoo of a dolphin are lifelong losers. The terrible inscription: "Live quickly die young".. leads the bearer to achieving that end.
A plenty of tattoos represent so-called pentacles – the magic drawings by means of which one can carry out the submission rituals.
According to the old beliefs, the butterfly is the sign of a prostitute (girls with this picture rush along the life failing to find a life’s companion for themselves).
Tattooists have supported the initiative of scientists because they are concerned about the growing popularity in the market of cheap ink from China whose quality is a big question mark.
In the course of a large-scale research it was found that individual components of ink are so harmful for health that can induce an oncological disease.
No way should girls have tattoos on the loins.
The difficulty lies in the following. During childbirth a woman is given epidural anesthesia. It is done in a puncture in the small of the back through which an anesthetic is injected under the membranes of the spinal cord. However, if during this procedure the dye of the tattoo or the infection which was introduced during tattooing but was silent under the skin is brought in the spinal cord, it threatens to paralyze the baby's mother. Such cases are already known in the medical practice.
If someone has found it’s time to remove the tattoo, look for a tattooist with a cold plasma coagulator.
