30 awesome pirate tattoos pics

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Pirates hardly ever thought of themselves as of the representatives of some cultural thread of the art of the tattoo. Pirate tattoos for them were a usual things – they lived with them and existed with them and they were the part of their lives. The pictures of chains, anchors, ships and skulls came into the everyday life of these sea dwellers.

The pirate nowadays cannot be imagined without different tattoos, that in fact were used not to make their bodies more different, but to make them safe and defend themselves.

Such pirate tattoo as the pack of lightnings on the left shoulder of the pirate used to show their might and ferociousness. If on the same place the skull pirate tattoo was situated, it showed the despise for enemies. On the backs of their bodies the pirates often showed such pirate tattoo images as the crucified Christ, who was used to preserve them from usual punishment on ships – the cats.

Such pirate tattoo represents some kind of challenge for those who decided to beat the savior. Besides that such image gave opportunity for the punished to escape punishment that he had deserved. It was not seldom that the pirate decided to become the bearer of the inscription that was useful in many ways of life. Such pirate tattoo as life saver, was used as a natural amulet and fulfilled its natural mission – saved the pirates from danger, where such pirate tattoo picture as the anchor was the symbol of hope. The picture of the lighthouse as the pirate tattoo should promise the pirate to come home safe from his journeys. The luck in love affairs waited for the person who applied the pirate tattoo of the naked beauty onto his skin.

If we speak about such pirate tattoo design it is necessary to say that there was even a scandal in navy forces of the USA in the middle of the nineteenth century. The sailors loved to apply naked women on their bodies but the society considered it as a bad thing in terms of moral. After long debates it was pointed that all those naked women should be dressed up – so the sailors had to add some dresses to their beauties.

It was not a rare pirate tattoo in the form of talisman looking as gallows pole with a crow. It was considered that the one who applies such tattoo image onto his skin will never be caught and never be punished for his deeds. Also pirates tried to gain luck in the form of such tattoo images as anchor, heart and two magical triangular figures.