Black and white yin yang tattoo of two cats curled inside a circle, shown in solid black ink on the lower leg.

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Yin yang cats tattoo on a calf

Calf · Black and grey · Photo

A solid black circular outline encloses two cats curled in a yin yang arrangement, with the black cat's body forming one half and the white negative space forming the other. The linework is bold and the black areas are filled solidly, with the white cat's features picked out in fine lines. The ink is black only and the design sits centred on smooth skin against a pale, softly blurred background.

Calf Cat Yin yang Circle Black cat

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Two cats came to the mill at Hollin Dyke the winter the river froze, one black as a coal scuttle and one white as the flour sacks stacked by the door. Nobody had sent for them. The miller's daughter, Ada, found them curled together on the warm flags of the oven hearth, and when she shooed them out they simply came back, circling each other in a slow turn that never quite settled.

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Her father said they were a sign of something, though he could never agree with himself what. Ada said they were only cats who had decided to share a bed, and she fed them the ends of the bread. By Candlemas the black one would only sleep if the white one had its back to the fire, and the white one would only eat if the black one ate first. It was the most sensible arrangement anyone in Hollin Dyke had seen in years, and the village grumbled about it the way villages do when they secretly approve.

When the thaw came and the millrace roared, the white cat went missing for three days. Ada walked the bank with a lantern, calling. On the fourth morning she found it on the far side of the weir, soaked and furious, and beside it the black cat, sitting upright with its tail wrapped tight around its own paws, waiting. Neither moved when she lifted them. Ada carried them home together, and she never again asked which of them had been the one to lead the way across.