The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #6539   Message #38211
Posted By: Alice
15-Sep-98 - 02:45 PM
Thread Name: What is "wearing the horn"?
Subject: RE: What is
Ian, Jerry is correct. Don't take this too literally, in spite of the artist's depictions that Tim referred to. This is a euphemism for a man who's wife is adulterous, and is just a figure of speech. The cultural context would infer different types of animal horns (or antlers) just as a symbol.