Neo-traditional tattoo of a grey horse head with a black curled mane, teal plumes and a pearl bridle, placed on the outer thigh.

Horse head with pearl bridle on thigh

Neo-trad · Thigh · Mixed · Photo

A grey-shaded horse head faces left, wearing a bridle with a jewelled browband and a strand of pearls around the neck. Its mane is drawn as black scrolling curls, with teal feathered plumes and a small pink accent along the jaw. Bold black outlines and smooth shading give the design a clear, solid look, photographed on a thigh against a grey background.

Neo-trad Thigh Horse Horse head Mane Pearl Plume Feather

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The cook of the brig Amity kept a grey mare in the bread locker, though no one aboard ever saw her eat. Every dawn Tobias Renn lifted the lid of the flour bin and found her standing among the sacks, pearls looped at her throat and her black mane curled like coiled rope. She had come up out of the harbour water the winter the ship lay idle at Whitby, and she would not be led back down.

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The crew called her a sea-mare, a thing of the tide. The mate called her a bad omen and wanted her put over the side. Renn only shook his head and fed her crusts from his own biscuit tin. On the third night south, a squall tore the foresail and the mare went up the companionway with teal weed trailing from her bridle. When she came back down she was wet to the withers, and the sail hung whole again, stitched by no hand the men could name.

The mate came to the galley at midnight, saying the mare had to go before the next port. Renn asked what she would cost him to keep. The mate said nothing, only that she was not a cook's horse and never would be. Renn unhooked the bridle himself. The pearls rattled into the flour, and the mare walked to the rail and stepped over without a splash.

Next morning the bin held only flour and one pearl. Renn kept it in his tea tin, and when the Amity came into Hull that spring, the tin rattled every time she took a wave, and he never once asked the sea for the rest.