Death tattoos: the main depictions of the Grim Reaper

There are a variety of different ways that the Grim Reaper can be portrayed as a tattoo symbol. Most Grim Reaper tattoo designs portray the Reaper in a long black robe with his famous long scythe. The Grim Reaper can be shown holding his scythe in a variety of different positions, such as the front or over his shoulder. Due to the length of the robe, only certain parts of the Reaper are usually shown. Skeleton hands are usually seen holding the long scythe. Mostly, the legs are not visible and the Grim Reaper is depicted floating at some distance...

Death Tattoos / Grim Reaper Tattoos: themes and meanings

Grim Reaper (also referred to as the Angel of Death) is a figure commonly used to represent death. The Grim Reaper became prominent in folklore during the Middle Ages, displacing earlier conceptions of Death as a benevolent, female figure. In 1479 in Cardiff, Duroc, seemingly a representation of Death who resembled a walking skeleton, appeared. The Grim Reaper is often depicted as a skeleton or as a solemn-looking man wearing a flowing black cloak and carrying a scythe, who cuts off people's lives as though he were harvesting grain. Legend has...

Another failed kanji / hanzi tattoo

Yesterday I found this image on tattooingtattoodesigns dot com. This tattoo can be found in the section called "asian tattoo design", but, if you ask me, it should be placed in a category called "Failed tattoos" or "misspelled tattoos", or something of this kind. First, the translation of the ideograms is completely wrong: it's not "I am a goddess" (as the person who posted the photo thinks), it's just the word "goddess" awfully written. The word 女神 (pronunciations: nǚshén in Chinese, joshin or megami in Japanese) is composed by these two ideograms:...

Failed tattoos : misspelled tattoos 2

The first part of this post can be read here: Failed tattoos - misspelled tattoos 1. And now, let's see another series of failed tattoos: You're right, dude, the pain is temporary (or tempary, like you've said), but your tattoo is not "To young to die / to fast to live". How about this one: "too illiterate to get a tattoo" - how does it sound? "Dance like noone is watching" - yeah, sure, dance like "noone" is watching and write like no one will ever read it Who need a "guardian angel", anyway? A "gaurdian angel" is far more better than the old-fashioned...