In the Dream Catcher comic earrings as you can see refer to person's family. It is more about tradition of black-haired people. They treat their family roots with care. Earring means siblings. Left ear for sisters, right for brothers. The upper side is for older, down for younger. Also emty holes are left when a sibling dies. Seeing this signs you can have some image of a person.

Earring were common among slavic men long before Kievan Rus'. Now it is concidered that it was not about fashion but social origin and status of family. Earrings could have been made of copper or wood for commoners and of silver, gold and precious stones stones for rich people.

There's a lot of sources which claim Cossacks earrings to have had more practical meaning as "one ear - the last son or last child depending on ear (right or left)" and "two ears - the last descendant of the family line". From this theory Cossacks commanders should have paid attention to these signs and not to send to the most dangerous missions such people with earrings.

There's a lot of dispute over this theory. Some researcheres claim it to be badly proved as it is difficult to trace the origin of this theory. All in all Cossacks conducted a lot of navy military actions so some researchers say it may have had other meanings. In Ukrainian textbooks you are likely to find the first theory.

In Western Europe earring were also common but Catholic church has forbidden changing your body (also to pierce your ears) in XIII century. Later earrings were not popular because of long-haired-fashion, and later came back to life when short hair became popular again.

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