Black and grey realism tattoo of a rosary wrapping around an ankle, with a cross hanging down across the top of the foot.

Rosary and cross tattoo on an ankle

Realism · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A bare foot and ankle show a tattoo of a rosary with beads, a centre medallion and a cross. The beads and chain are shaded with soft highlights and shadows to give a three-dimensional look. The tattoo is in black and grey on a plain skin tone, set against a tiled floor.

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Sit down, the lot of you, and stop looking at the cake. I'll tell it while the fiddler gets his breath back. Hanna Morrow had a rosary her mother left her, black beads worn smooth as river stones, and she wore it wrapped twice round her ankle under her stocking, because her father would not have a Catholic thing in the house. Her Tomas was a herring man out of Kinsale, and every time he sailed she told one bead for each tide he was gone.

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Three winters she counted. The beads ran down to the medallion and she had nothing left to count with but her fingers, so she unhooked the cross and put it in her apron pocket, and she walked the cliff road every evening to where the lighthouse lamp first showed. The neighbours said she had gone soft. The priest said she had gone to God. She said neither, only that the sea owed her a man and she meant to collect.

On the fourth spring the boat came in short two men, and Tomas was not one of the dead. He stepped off the quay with his cap in his hand and a gash on his cheek, and the first thing he asked was what she had been doing with the cross. She held it out on her palm and said, I have counted you back. He laughed until he had to sit on a bollard, and she fastened the chain on his wrist there and then, so he would know what he owed.

So that is the reason the cross hangs loose at a wedding and never gets pinned to anything. Now, Padraig, mind that fiddle, and somebody fetch the bride a chair.

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