الوشم في الشعر الجاهلي : دراسة في ضوء الواقع الاجتماعي

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This research is a study of the origins of the tattoo rise in its historical depth, it reveals that this phenomenon had appeared in the Totemic religions where people believed that the blood that bled during this process would make the person mixed spiritually and materially with his Totem to have one features.

Tattoo is used for toilet or makeup or to treat some panes and diseases, it also relates to magic, more over the tattoo signs define the person tribe, folk and sector.

Tattoo is a certain figure or mark drown on a part of the human body skin by a needle and a certain color that interacted with the bled blood to give unchangeable mark on the skin, this figure is a part of the tattoo process not the tattoo itself The pre - Islamic poets had indicated the tattoo on the different body parts such as the hand, palm, wrist, , carpus and mouth, neglecting it on the other part such as the chest, throat, abdomen, navel, thigh, leg and foot.

It seems that they had referred to the mentioned parts of the body because they are uncovered for the eyes, while the other parts are neglected because they are hidden under the clothes hence they had considered this privacy.