To understand why so many people choose Celtic butterflies for their personal tattoos, we first need to understand what butterflies meant to the ancient Celts themselves.
The Celtic people lived closely entwined with the natural world and ascribed meanings to everything from stones to birds to trees. To the Celts, the butterfly was a strong symbol of rebirth and/or transformation.
Similar to their beliefs about other winged creatures, the Celts thought butterflies had souls. They believed these butterfly souls would fly around in search of a new mother, and when one found the right woman, it would conceal itself in her food or drink and be swallowed, thus impregnating the woman so the butterfly could be reborn as a human.
The Celts also held that to see a butterfly flitting about at night was a bad omen, one that foretold of impending death. Night was the natural domain of the butterfly's cousin, the moth.
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Butterfly tattoos on upper back women
