Colourful stylised snake tattoo in a neo-traditional style on the thigh, with eye motifs, triangles and bold black outlines.

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Stylised snake on a thigh

Neo-trad · Thigh · Colour · Photo

A stylised snake coils across the thigh, its body patterned with circular eye motifs and small triangles. The bold black outlines are filled with flat areas of green, blue, yellow and red. The photograph is taken at a close angle, with the edge of lace underwear visible at the top of the frame.

Neo-trad Thigh Snake Eye Triangle Geometric pattern

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The snake came to the dance hall at Harrowgate the week the fiddler's wife went missing, and nobody thought to ask where it had come from. It slid under the sprung floor during the Saturday waltzes, and by the Sunday it was wound round the legs of the bandstand, its scales the green of pond weed and its belly striped yellow and red like a barber's pole left out in the rain. The old men said it had eyes along its back, rings of white and red, and that each eye had a little painted triangle beneath it to keep it honest.

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Marta Quill, who kept the cloakroom, said the snake had come up the stairs from the cellar where the hall's lost property was stored. She had found a brass key there that had no lock to fit, and a hatpin that pointed always toward the door. When she told the bandmaster this, he laughed and asked her to play the piano in the interval, since the pianist had gone off with the fiddler's wife and not come back.

So Marta sat at the upright and played a slow air, and the snake lifted its head above the keys and watched her hands. It did not strike. It only uncoiled a little more with each bar, until the whole length of it stretched across the floorboards like a ribbon being measured. At the last chord it stopped, and every one of its eyes blinked at once. The hall was quiet. Then the snake turned and went back down the cellar stairs, and under the boards the key in Marta's apron pocket grew warm and began, very faintly, to turn.