Halloween tattoos: witches, pumpkins and ghosts

The scariest night of the year is getting closer and closer, so it's time to talk about Halloween Tattoos!

Witches, enchanted pumpkins, black cats and ghosts: Halloween night is a holiday of Anglo-Saxon origin that has recently appeared in Italy. It is celebrated on October 31st, just before All Saints' Day, and is a holiday where children and adults alike dress up as night creatures. The custom of dressing up on the night of October 31 to November 1, moving from house to house for the famous "Wallet or life") is actually very old: it dates back to the Middle Ages, when the poor knocked on houses and received food in exchange for prayers for the dead.

Halloween and Italian traditions

While many in the old guard complain about the holiday's origins as unpatriotic, there are many regional festivals in Italy that have a lot in common with Halloween. In Calabria, for example, the centuries-old tradition “Dead coccal“Who sees the children intend to carve pumpkins in the shape of skulls and are going to offer them from house to house to various villagers. Something similar happens in Puglia and Sardinia, where children go to neighbors to ask for "something for the soul."

Halloween Inspired Tattoo Ideas

So, if it is true that in the end the whole world is a country, it is also true that there are fans of this festival who want Halloween tattoo... Some people choose beautiful haunted tattoos, stylized and colored, or another item that certainly has a good track record is the witch. Tattoos with witches they clearly relate to topics such as magic, black or white magical art, and femininity. Witches have been controversial figures in history, victims of extermination, symbols of power and seduction typical of women. They were often healers, women with deep knowledge of nature and plants. Also black cat tattoo Undoubtedly, they are one of the themes for Halloween connoisseurs. In fact, the black cat is one of the symbolic creatures of this holiday, due to the superstition that the black cat has the power to cause misfortune and misfortune to those who meet them (poor black kittens!). Obviously, we can't help but mention the classic carved pumpkin, which however is meant for true Halloween fans, along with sweets, candies, lollipops and whatever we usually see on the darkest night of the year.