Parents, kids and readers, beware: the \"Blue Star Tattoo\" story is THE king of tattoo urban legends. Various accounts dispute the actual time and place this rumor started, but the story has been making the rounds easily since sometime during the 1970s. Flyers were the first manifestation of this story however the internet has given it new life, as the faux warning can now make the e-mail spam rounds. Some of the warnings appear quite official, sometimes being printed to look like a police report, and sometimes looking like an actual hospital or health agency press release.http://www.buckallew.com/catInfo: On the other hand the Timucua tribe was heavily tattooed. The Timucua hailed from the northern region of what is known today as Florida. Their tribal tattoos indicated wealth, rank, tribe affiliation, and direct family, their role in society, acts of strength, and deeds of bravery. Some of the tribal designs were as simple as a few lines or circles in certain patterns while others were highly intricate pieces of work. Holes were made in the flesh with various objects and then soot of some sort and berry juice was rubbed into the wounds. It was not uncommon for them to die from infection. The Timucua seem to have been one of the heaviest tattooed tribes within the North American continent.There are many other tribes in North America that used tattoos to indicate various aspects of their lives, or as decoration. The Wichita, or Kitikiti\'sh, as they called themselves, tattooed dark rings around the eyes of the men. Their tribal tattoos made them look \"raccoon-eyed.\" They had many other traditions as well but are best known for the dark rings.There are also the Inuit tribes of the north. The expert tribal tattooists of the Inuit were usually the elderly women. Their experience working with hides and other precise duties made their hands perfect for tattooing the tribal markings and amulets into their kinsman. The tattooist would make amixture of lampblack, urine, and graphite as the pigment for her indelible tribal artwork. All of these items had a spiritual power and were commonly used to ward off evil spirits. These tribal tattoos were also believed to prevent and cure sickness associated with the evil spirits. She would thentake a strip of sinew and string it through a bone or steel needle, soak it in the pigment, and then proceed to her creations.\n\nThroughout history it has been quite typical for women to be denied the \"privilege\" of being tattooed with a tribal marking or identity. The reasoning behind this, in manytribal communities, was that they were to be denied any adornment or niceties that would align them as equals to the men of the tribe.\n\nOn the other hand, there were tribes such as the Omaha. The daughters of prominent men were marked with spots on their forehead to represent the sun. There were also many other tribes that allowed both sexes to be equally tattooed.\n\nFortunately, a woman being the lesser in the tattooing pool has changed drastically over the past couple hundred years and is much more commonplace these days. Nowadays women are observed wearing tribal butterflies, tribal roses, and the ever popular tribal lower-back pieces. It is also quite typical once again for women to be tattooists these days. accounts, buckallew, johnny, King, legends, rumors, Stroud, tattoo, THE, urban