Tea with Miranda: Circus Tattoos

Season 8, Bonus Episode

Greetings My Dear Guest!  Maybe you recall ...in our previous reading on Sacred Tattoos, I lamented the fact that there were just too many wonderful tattoo tales to choose from-- and the story of the first tattooed circus performers is one of them!  So please join me now to hear about these daring and "colorful" characters!  Now, won't you take a seat beside me?  Natasha will be along shortly with our tea.  Just relax and maybe don't make too much eye contact with her... She's a ... nervous sort of... girl... you know... Welcome to The Midnight Library

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Lady Viola

Published by http://www.covingtonhistory.co.uk/Lady%20Viola.htm

Poster advertising Captain Costentenus as a side show for the Great Farini or P. T. Barnum circus.

Advertisement in Harper's Weekly for Captain Costentenus

Advertisement in Harper's Weekly for Captain Costentenus. According to Leonard Cassuto, this scene - observed by an "oriental" man - "makes the racial ans sexual tensions attached to the act [of tattooing] especially clear" (

FOLIES-BERGERE/ Le Capitaine Costentenus

Lady Viola

Published by Covington History: http://www.covingtonhistory.co.uk/Lady%20Viola.htm

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