Black and grey ram skull tattoo with curled horns on the middle finger of a clenched hand, shown against a dark background.

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Ram skull tattoo on a finger

Realism · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A small ram skull with curled horns is tattooed on the middle finger of a clenched hand. The linework and shading are black and grey, with fine hatching giving the bone a detailed, three-dimensional look. The hand fills the frame against a plain black background, with the tattoo centred on the finger.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mhairi Coull hung the ram's skull above the lamp-room door the week the boat stopped coming. Her husband said it was bad luck to keep a dead thing so near the light, and she told him the light had kept company with the dead since the Stevensons built it, so one more skull would not trouble the oil. She had scraped the flesh away with a knife and boiled the bone in a copper on the range until the kitchen smelled of wet wool.

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That winter the fog came in off the Minch and stayed eleven days. Tam went down to the landing with the lantern each dusk, though there was no boat to meet. On the twelfth morning Mhairi found him sitting on the step, wet to the knees, saying he had heard a bell under the water and followed it out to the skerry. He would not say more, only that the ram had been standing on the rocks with its head lowered, and when he looked again it had gone.

Mhairi took the skull down and turned it so the horns faced the sea. In the spring the boat came with paraffin and a new wick, and the fog never returned in that shape again. Tam swore the beam burned a shade whiter after that, though he could never say why.

The keepers who came after were told to leave the skull where it hung and to keep the horns to the west. Each dusk, before they struck the match, they touched the curled bone for luck, the way a fisherman's wife touches the doorframe before a storm.