---
name: Sicanje
period_ancient: 100 - 600
period_modern: 1940 - 1950
locations: Bosnia, Croatia, Albania, Greece
---

# Sicanje

## Cultural Context

**Figures Associated:**
- Catholic Croat girls and women; it was a cultural and religious tradition for spiritual protection or identity. Some Albanian and Vlach women in the western Balkans also practiced it historically.

**Events Associated / Significant Cultural Impact:**
1. The Sicanje Project; a Cleveland State University documentation effort preserving the traditional tattooing practice through 24 interviews conducted in 2019 in Bosnia. Led by Marija Maracic and Josipa Karaca, it records oral histories of women who received tattoos as girls around Saint Joseph's feast day for protective purposes.

**Fashion Icons / Symbolism:** Sicanje Tattoo,


## Drug Connections

**Modern:** [Alcohol](../../traits/overlays/molecules/alcohol.md)

**Ancient:** [Ethanol](../../traits/overlays/molecules/ethanol.md)

## Sources

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicanje
- https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sicanje-traditional-balkan-tattoo
- https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sicanje/

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## Miberas with this Ancestor

[#0051](../../miberas/0051.md) • [#0059](../../miberas/0059.md) • [#0098](../../miberas/0098.md) • [#0106](../../miberas/0106.md) • [#0116](../../miberas/0116.md) • [#0135](../../miberas/0135.md) • [#0136](../../miberas/0136.md) • [#0159](../../miberas/0159.md) • [#0241](../../miberas/0241.md) • [#0288](../../miberas/0288.md) • [#0306](../../miberas/0306.md) • [#0334](../../miberas/0334.md) • [#0387](../../miberas/0387.md) • [#0398](../../miberas/0398.md) • [#0419](../../miberas/0419.md) • [#0437](../../miberas/0437.md) • [#0444](../../miberas/0444.md) • [#0453](../../miberas/0453.md) • [#0465](../../miberas/0465.md) • [#0528](../../miberas/0528.md) • [#0530](../../miberas/0530.md) • [#0541](../../miberas/0541.md) • [#0563](../../miberas/0563.md) • [#0624](../../miberas/0624.md) • [#0945](../../miberas/0945.md) • [#1014](../../miberas/1014.md) • [#1084](../../miberas/1084.md) • [#1105](../../miberas/1105.md) • [#1158](../../miberas/1158.md) • [#1191](../../miberas/1191.md) • [#1198](../../miberas/1198.md) • [#1201](../../miberas/1201.md) • [#1208](../../miberas/1208.md) • [#1226](../../miberas/1226.md) • [#1227](../../miberas/1227.md) • [#1305](../../miberas/1305.md) • [#1346](../../miberas/1346.md) • [#1382](../../miberas/1382.md) • [#1465](../../miberas/1465.md) • [#1478](../../miberas/1478.md) • [#1503](../../miberas/1503.md) • [#1552](../../miberas/1552.md) • [#1593](../../miberas/1593.md) • [#1607](../../miberas/1607.md) • [#1608](../../miberas/1608.md) • [#1618](../../miberas/1618.md) • [#1624](../../miberas/1624.md) • [#1647](../../miberas/1647.md) • [#1695](../../miberas/1695.md) • [#1741](../../miberas/1741.md) • ... and 207 more

*257 Miberas total*
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