Cain was branded on his forehead. The town of Bethlehem was once renowned for its tattoos, applied by pilgrims as if to commemorate Jesus' stigmata. During the Renaissance, tattoos of astrological signs were thought to confer cosmological powers.
Seafarers' Memoirs, Written on Skin
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