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More Tattoos: Bangkok Tattoo Festival

June 12, 2007 By MyBKK

This is how real Thai tattoos are made. A proper tattoo should be made in a temple by a monk, but this demonstration is the next closest thing.

Bangkok Tattoo Festival

Thais believe tattoos rendered by monks hold mystical powers, rendering the bearer invulnerable to illness, evil spirits – even bullets, an animist legend that dates back to 9th-century Khmer culture when superstitious soldiers tattooed their torsos as a form of drawn-on battle armour to guard against enemy swords.

Thai Tattoo

I’ve got Budda in, errr…, on my belly and a lot of time to kill.

 

Bangkok Tattoo Arts Festival

 

Thai Tattoo

 

Bangkok Tattoo Festival

 

Bangkok Tattoo Festival

And finally, one of many farangs representing the growing tattooed expat community, one of the real stars of the show, straight from a Pattaya beer garden, with a customary can of Singha, Bob “The Ink Man”

 

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