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Just a man with a fancy hat, cool eyeglasses, doing the devil horns? Well, in fact, there is also a small ๐Ÿ“ on his hat and the man is riding a giant ๐Ÿ“ as you will see in the next post.

By the way, you see a detail of a satire broadside about #cuckoldry published in #earlymodern Europe.

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A man with eyeglasses, and a fancy hat. His right arm is doing the devil horns (mano cornuta). A full image of the broadside, my guess: mid seventeenth-century, can be accessed here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Spottbild_Hahnrei.jpg
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So doing the devil horns (mano cornuta) has a lot of meanings, and my favorite is the popular "Pommesgabel" version of Heavy Metal fame, but there are also more meanings - one is #cuckoldry.

The cock rider doing the devil horns, and the many small fellow cock riders in the lower part of the print, are variations of the topic: in contemporary German "Hahnrei" is the husband of an adulterous wife. In English: a cuckold. ๐Ÿค˜

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A satirical illustration features a man riding a large rooster, dressed in period clothing with a wide-brimmed hat and glasses. He raises one hand in a gesture while gripping the roosterโ€™s reins. In the background, other figures and roosters are
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