stigmata

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of stigma

   “I've had notions, negative each one, images of what it is to seem black: to look black, to talk black, to walk black, to dress black; need I list the stigmata any further.”

name

1. bodily marks or sores, corresponding in location to the crucifixion wounds of Christ; supposed to occur during states of religious ecstasy or hysteria, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically