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Devil Tattoos

Devil tattoos are representations of a supernatural entity, who, in most Western religions, is the central embodiment of evil. This entity is commonly referred to by a variety of other names, including Satan, Asmodai, Beelzebub, Lucifer and Mephistopheles. In the tradition of the Christian Church, Lucifer was an archangel, who had God’s favor as the first angel among equals, but because of his vanity, hubris and weakness of character fell so far from God’s grace that he was literally cast out of Heaven when he led other angels in revolt. As the devil, Lucifer is a symbol for chaos, and a wild, uncontrollable spirit cursed with all the vices and worst aspects of the human condition. Images of Satan as being red, having horns, cloven hooves and a tail are all efforts by a Church hierarchy to literally demonize the image of the fallen Lucifer. A devil tattoo symbolizes a mischievous, lascivious, and perhaps slightly wicked nature with a predisposition towards all manner of sinful behavior and other vices! It is also the symbol for lust in certain pagan religions such as Satanism. Despite it’s obvious connotations of being evil, many people merely choose a devil tattoo because their personality is a bit mischievous. Some devil depictions have nothing to do with hell and condemnation, but rather are cute and cuddly.

Now who doesn’t have a little devil in them, I know I do. These hot little devil tattoos are excellent for the person that wants to show off their devilish side. All these devil tattoos are red, I really like the blue devils that you see a lot of tattoo artists putting out now days. The blue makes them look just a little more gentle in their devilish ways. The great thing about devil tattoos is that men and women look good with them on their bodies. A little devil never did anything that bad to make someone not want to wear them around town. The naughty little devil with the pitch fork has a meaning to lot of people, it says I can be nice and I can be naughty, which do you prefer. If you look at some of these devil tattoos, some of them even have wings. Now I really like all of them, but a few stand out over the rest. I like the full body devil tattoos versus the devil face only. I think it just looks better visually. I could see a hot girl having one of these devil tattoos on her arm, prancing around a party talking about how naughty she has been.

Devil Tattoos

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Devil Tattoos

The devil's tattoo refers to the act of ceaselessly drumming one's fingers or tapping one's foot to the point of annoying everyone else in the room. The term is generally used as part of the construction "to beat the devil's tattoo." In short, someone who beats the devil's tattoo is afflicted with an uncontrollable case of the fidgets.

Nowadays, the word "tattoo" generally refers to body ink (based on the Polynesian word "tatau"), but a more archaic meaning of the word stemmed from the military tradition of using a drumbeat or other auditory signal to order soldiers to retreat back to base at night. In this connotation, the word was originally "taptoe." One etymological theory, at least according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is that the word was a shortening of the Dutch phrase "doe den tap toe," meaning "to put the tap to" or "shut off the tap." This referred to the practice of the police shutting off the beer taps in all of the drinkinghouses at closing time, thus marking the end of a soldier's day. It is also possible that "taptoe" is an onomatopoeic word describing the sound of the drum taps that signaled "lights out" in the barracks.

The "devil" part of the phrase may refer to Satan, in that someone who is busy beating the devil's tattoo may inspire his companions to commit evil acts (e.g. strangling) to stop that infernal noise. However, it is more likely a reference to the "blue devils," the hallucinations experienced by a person suffering from delirium tremens, better known as the DTs or alcohol withdrawal. As one of the hallmarks of DTs is uncontrollable tremors or shaking, eventually the term "blue devils" was generalized to include all kinds of fidgeting (someone who constantly fidgeted was said to hear the blue devils). The devil's tattoo may also be related to the old platitude, "Idle hands are the devil's playthings."

The phrase has probably been in colloquial use since at least the 1600s, but it didn't become popular in literature until the 18th and particularly the 19th centuries. It held a fascination for writers of the macabre, and appears often in the work of Edgar Allan Poe and his ilk. The devil's tattoo also makes an appearance in the writing of Sir Walter Scott, Honore de Balzac, Edward Carpenter, Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, and G. K. Chesterton, among others.

Alas, the devil's tattoo is falling out of favor in contemporary times. When I was a fidgety little girl, it was one of my grandmother's favorite sayings, usually as part of a stern admonition to cease and desist, and often followed by an empty threat to "smack the blue devils" out of me. However, when I recently mentioned the phrase to a drummer friend (he has a sometimes annoying habit of hammering out a beat on any available surface, as drummers are wont to do), he accused me, in no uncertain terms, of pulling it out of my ass.

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