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Sicanje or bocanje was a tattoo custom practiced mostly among Catholic Croat teenage girls and boys of the central regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the Dalmatia region of Croatia.[1][2] The tattoo practice, which has been widespread among Albanians (see Albanian traditional tattooing) and also Vlach women, native populations of the western Balkans, predates the Slavic migrations to the Balkans, and consequently Christianity itself, tracing back to Illyrian times, although scholars documented it in the 19th century. The Eastern Orthodox Slavic population abhorred this practice.[3]
- ^ "Traditional Croatian Tattoos: Meet the tattoo artist keeping tradition alive". 3 March 2021.
- ^ "Traditional Croatian Tattoos". 4 March 2018.
- ^ Lelaj 2015, p. 94; Norman 2018, pp. 63.