I grew up believing that the universal fingers-behind-the-head-in-a-photo gesture signified "devil horns."

When I first heard this, I was probably too young to understand the concept of "cuckhold." Did my parents deliberately teach me a bowdlerized version of this gesture's meaning? Probably not ~ I think they probably just passed along what they had been told.

Yuo might have to go back several generations to find the concerned parent who deliberately censored him/her self and told a child those horns were devil horns, not cuckhold's horn's.

Of course, any more than two or three generations ago, there were no cameras and no snapshots. Did people sneak behind their friends and "put the horns on them" for the amusement of onlookers, even back when there was no means of permanently recording an image of the event?