Ultima Thule

I krzyż, którego nie potrafię ocenić skąd jest ale chyba z południa Europy i z jednej strony ramię ma obcęgi a z drugiej młotek

WIE KTOS O CO CHODZI?

jeśli taki to Krzyż Saletyński

często na starych krzyżach /np takich domowych gdy przyjmuje się księdza po kolędzie/ z tył są te symbole uwidocznione
jak będziecie u swoich babć i dziadków zobaczcie sobie

Traditional Croatian Tattoo

"u selu Ruda, općina Novi Travnik, prošle godine, majka Ive Tomića, mislim da se zove Kata"
photo by Ozrenka Fišić

Here is the group about TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC TATTOOS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2 ... tos&ref=ts

I created this group because our catholic people have been tattooed for centuries, especially during Turkish occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1463/1878. During that time it was hard for them and majority was forced to convert to islam. Girls were raped, children were taken to Turkey as slaves and Turkish Chiefs had the right to sleep with christan women on their first wedding night.

Our people tattoed their hands, fingers, chests, foreheads with crosses and other ancient ornaments in order to protect themselves from Turks and so that the children could always know that they were Catholic once if converted.

They tattoed or in croatian ” sicati” their children between 6-16 years of age with mother’s milk / of a mother who has a male child/, carchoal,grime, honey, needels and with other natural materials.

The ceremony of tattooing was done by catholic women on Catholic holidays Saint Joseph’s Day 19. March, Feast of the Annunciation on 25 March – simbolic 9 months to Christmas, and in some areas on Good Friday.

Catholic tattoing in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a sign of our faith and it was a closer connection to God and suffering of Jesus. These women were often looked down on during communism in former Yugoslavia, some of them were threatened and treated like criminals, some of them lost their jobs because of their religion. They stopped tattoing their children because fo fear. It died out because of communist regime and last women were tattooed in the 1950′s.