... keeps many modern Pagans indoors, and under cover smothering ancient rites of body modification. Tattooing was a primitive practice that had died out in Europe as Christian civilization advanced, but had survived elsewhere in the 'uncivilized' world. Roman and Greek culture did not see tattoos in a positive ... would mark marked criminals and slaves. This practice is still carried on today. Even this powerful ban could not completely eradicate tattooing from either Europe or the Middle East. Tattooing worked its way into these religions by way of the Pilgrims. In the middle Ages when a ...

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