Comments on: What did the Picts really wear?

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:48:36 +0000

From what I’ve been able to learn, woad is not a stable pigment for tattooing. They may have painted decorations on their skin with woad, but if they did have tattoos, they were created with other pigments. Also, the Picts may have used woad as a method of treating and preventing fungal skin infections. Since they lived in a marshy area, I would think they were probably prone to fungal infections. Woad is very effective at curing fungal infections, although it does turn you blue for a while.

By: Edith MacAllister Sauter

Edith MacAllister Sauter — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 01:46:05 +0000

Wonderful article and photography of Pict artifacts. I believe Brian Sykes, renown geneticist anthropologist from Oxford
University and Research specialist of worldwide DNA, has narrowed down what YDNA is of the Pick lineage. Have
you ever heard such?
Thanks again for the sharing the awesome article.

By: Amanda Moffet

Amanda Moffet — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 09:31:46 +0000

Hi – yes! I run a very large Facebook group and we are forever getting the blue naked pict pictures posted. Every time I just point them to the pdf, has been so helpful! Have searched for information in other places and just not found it. Thank you so much for creating it. If you ever want to publish a blog here – please just contact me: amanda@scotclans.com.

By: Robert B. More

Robert B. More — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 05:53:54 +0000

About the origins of the name “Pict”: “The first historical appearance of the term ‘Pict’ occurred in 297 CE in a Roman speech. The term is not Celtic, but of Latin derivation, and refers to the Roman soldiers’ nickname for Celtic warriors who painted or tattooed themselves, from the Latin pictii, the past participle of pingere, ‘to paint.’” From my book, The Origins of the Mure Family.