A werewolf old style (Source).
I've been seeing for a while wolf tattoos that are repeated in images here and there. The representation is always the same (or almost the same): a fierce woman, With the head of a wild animal (most of the time a wolf) in the head.
Intrigued, I looked to see if it was a common design or some fashion. And this is what I I found.
The desert dweller
La Loba specializes in reviving wolves even though she wears their skins (Source).
They say that, right desert of the southern United States, near the border with Mexico, live a Woman which is known by many names: the bone. The mop. The wolf.
Live in a cave to which from time to time a lost traveler, half dead from thirst and heat. Leaving the desert dust behind, the traveler goes into the cave of the woman in search of his cool shade and he comes across a damp place, full of animal bones to the roof. Skulls of deer. Ringed columns of rattlesnakes. And many, many bones of Wolves.
Si The wolf is in a good mood, maybe invite the traveler to a bowl of water dusty and offer to pass the night.
Life and death in a song
A fierce Wolf uses a scepter to resurrect the animals (Source).
Perhaps The wolf offer our traveler to spend the night and the idea for an incredible wolf tattoo. Because the mysterious woman is a be exceptional which travel the desert, barefoot, picking up the bones of the creatures he encounters, until he manages to assemble a full skeleton.
So, the Woman stands tall, extend your arms on the bone white, and to the Moonlight surrounds a litany slow and humble, but very powerful. And then the skeleton trembles, and they grow organs, nerves, skin, life. And then the wolf or the deer or the rattlesnake rush canon down and back to the cold night of desert.
La Loba is part of a Native American legend, as we can see in this impressive tattoo (Source).
No doubt the wolf tattoos they are the portrait of a beautiful legend in which the here and the beyond to show the duality of things, two sides of the coin of existence. And you, do you have any wolf tattoo?