Croatian grandmother with tattoos on his hands

In Croatia you can find older women at the hands of a tattoo depicting us with incomprehensible symbols. These tattoos local women began to put on his hands back in the days when their lands have been occupied by the Ottoman Empire. They did not lose their faith in God and did not intend to accept Islam, which is why, to get to know each other woman began to cover the arms tattoos. During the occupation of girls and women were forced to forcibly take someone else's faith and drove into slavery, so the tattoo is also considered to be a kind of amulets. Tattoo stuffed with special ink consisting of breast milk, black, honey and coal. And though now those terrible times have long since passed, the tradition remained forever in the memory of local residents.