Croat tattooing in Bosnia and Herzegovina

[Rastko]

Traditional name for tattooing is ''sicanje'' or ''bocanje''.

Here is the documentary:

[Rastko]

I've asked my fiancee about it but she can't remember any of her female ancestors tattoing.She's from western Herzegovina.

My female ancestors from southern Herzegovina also didn't have tatoos,as far as I know.

It's more of a Bosnian Croat thing,than Herzegovian.

Duke,where from is your grandma?

[Hurrem sultana]

Ovo treba na pdf Bosna

[Hurrem sultana]

Anyway,i watch this program and apparently it is pre christian(according to the franciscan)

[Rastko]

Ovo treba na pdf Bosna

Nema nike potrebe.

[Hurrem sultana]

Nema nike potrebe.

Pa radi se o Bosni

[Arbërori]

Very interesting, we had a simmilar practice, but it's mostly abandoned.

I believe it's pre-Christian, but later on has adopted Christian values ofcourse. Beautiful!

[Alenka]

Are the motives all Christian? Because I think some seem to be pagan elements, like kolovrat and sonce.

[Hurrem sultana]

Very interesting, we had a simmilar practice, but it's mostly abandoned.

I believe it's pre-Christian, but later on has adopted Christian values ofcourse. Beautiful!

Most people have similar stuff,its not that special really.Its pagan

[Rastko]

Are the motives all Christian? Because I think some seem to be pagan elements, like kolovrat and sonce.

People in the Balkans do tattoos for millennia. Tattoo needles that are found in this region date back to Illyrian times and even the Celts buriedv them in their graves, as evidenced by the recent discovery of tattoo needles in Croatia. But the greatest need for tattooing is caused when the Ottomans occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina 1463. Since then, over the next 400 years, until the 1878 Croatians were mass tattooing themselves to save their children from abduction, Janissaries and horny begs.