What is the significance of a pig and rooster tattoo?

Now at first glance a pig and rooster are not something you would associate with old school tattooing and it's maritime context but according to seafaring traditions a pig tattooed on one foot and a rooster on the other would keep a sailor from drowning! read more

The first is that since neither the pig or rooster can swim they would want to get back to shore as quickly as possible if a sailors ship sunk. On the other hand the tattoos meaning is seen to be derived from the wooden crates the roosters and pigs were kept in on ships. read more

Pig and rooster tattoo meaning It seems that today almost all people have tattoos. What was previously considered an attribute of sailors, criminals and bikers, today it is a popular body adornment for many people. read more