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Symbolic horns are used as a visual shorthand to indicate a man whose wife cheats on him. This may involve allusions to horned animals such as bulls and stags. The symbolism is more rarely applied to women whose partners are unfaithful. While in English-speaking countries this has been a practically Forgotten Trope for over a century, it still thrives in European and Latin American countries where the word for cuckold literally means "horned", the Italian word "cornuto" being perhaps the most widely recognized example. A prank in various European and Latin American countries is to surreptitiously hold two fingers behind an unwitting victim's head, giving them cuckold horns. The American variation is the Bunny Ears Picture Prank, which is done with different fingers and doesn't have any negative connotation besides looking funny. Incidentally, do not show the "hook 'em horns" symbol to people from those countries, because that gesture means "Your wife's sleeping around" to them, and it is a very ugly insult that has led to fights. See also Horned Humanoid, Warding Gestures, Emasculated Cuckold. Contrast Crown of Horns. |
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In La Bohème, when Marcello confronts Musetta about her flirting with other men, he proclaims that he won't allow horns to grow under his hat – even though he and Musetta aren't married, as she irritably points out to him. | |
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In Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, Harry Bannerman, who feels guilty about his affair with his boss's wife, imagines twelve-foot horns protruding from his boss's forehead at one moment when his boss angrily strikes up a conversation with him on a subject that turns out to be completely irrelevant. But since Harry is a married man himself, he shortly thereafter contemplates the ethics of "put[ting] horns on your wife." | |
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In Much Ado About Nothing, horns pointedly symbolize what Benedick fears about being a married man. Beatrice also refers to the Devil as "like an old cuckold, with horns on his head." | |
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The Simpsons, In the episode "Moonshine River", cuckold horns are handed out at a performance of Shakespeare in the Park. When a man puts them on and his date starts kissing the man next to her, he says "It works!" In the episode "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpsons Mind", Homer, infallibly predicting that once his memory is wiped he will be in a Mistaken for Cheating situation, uses the phrase "No doubt I'll misconstrue that as him placing a cuckold's horns upon my brow." |
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Angels & Demons has a paragraph or two where Langdon notes that the symbology of this (keeping in mind who wrote it) means that it's actually a compliment to the one you're bunny ears-ing's virility. | |
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In Troilus and Cressida, Troilus jokes in the opening scene that Menelaus (whose wife is living with Paris) has only wounded Paris with his horns, and Thersites later cheers on the duel between Menelaus and his "cuckold-maker" as a fight between a bull and a dog, and mockingly warns Paris about Menelaus's Horn Attack. | |
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Mentioned in Letters to His Son; from letter CLXXXVI: "A prudent cuckold (and there are many such at Paris) pockets his horns when he cannot gore with them; and will not add to the triumph of his maker by only butting with them ineffectually." | |
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In A Total War Saga: TROY, the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, Helen, leaves him to join Paris of Troy, beginning the game's conflict. Meneleus wears a horned helmet into battle and has a horned bull as the icon of Sparta. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: King Robert's banner is a stag, which leads to multiple puns when it comes out that his queenly wife cheated on him. The phrase "give him horns" is used a lot. When Lancel Lannister is given an Arranged Marriage with "Gatehouse" Ami, it's joked that he needs an armorer to make him a horned helm. |
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In Arthur, King of Time and Space, when it looks like Sir Ector's son Kay is the lost heir, King Lot says to Ector "Of all the honors Uther gave you, I never suspected the horns!" | |
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Referenced several times throughout The Baker's Wife, both by the baker and the villagers. The latter prank the former by presenting him with a present which turns out to be a gag gift consisting of a pair of horns. | |
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In The Merry Wives of Windsor, when Ford, disguised as Master Brook, encourages Falstaff to go after his wife, Falstaff boasts that he will put the cuckold's horns on Ford and later mockingly describes him as a "peaking cornuto." Ford vows revenge on him: "If I have horns to make one mad, let the proverb go with me—I'll be horn mad." The wives con Falstaff into meeting them in Windsor Forest disguised as Herne the Hunter, the Horned Humanoid of myth. When Falstaff has been properly humiliated in his horned disguise, Ford points to the horns and tells him, "Now, sir, who's a cuckold now?" | |
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The Silkworm: Owen Quine's Fictional Document novel Bombyx Mori uses a lot of arcane symbolism reminiscent of Elizabethan revenge tragedies by way of Pilgrim's Progress. One of the characters in the book, the Cutter, is meant to represent Quine's editor Jerry Waldegrave. The Cutter has horns, which detective Cormoran Strike eventually figures out is a reference to the old rumor that another author, Michael Fancourt, was the real father of Waldegrave's daughter. | |
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Kaamelott has an episode where the knights are reluctant to wear their helmets (as they all look stupid in them), one of which has horns. | |
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Game of Thrones: Robert Baratheon wears a Crown of Horns and has an unfaithful wife. The effect is dialed down, though, as he's not exactly a paragon of fidelity himself, being far more unfaithful and publicly so than she is. It even gets Harsher in Hindsight when you realize his betrothed and Lost Lenore, Lyanna Stark, is revealed to have never loved him either, choosing his Arch-Enemy Rhaegar over him. In the books, in A Game of Thrones, Ned Stark remembers a conversation he had with Lyanna, with the latter complaining that Robert cheated on her during her engagement and fathered a bastard in the Vale, Mya Stone. Ned insisted that Robert would change after marriage, but Lyanna replied that "Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature." | |
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In The Rose Tattoo, after two gossips disclose to Serafina that her late husband had an affair with another women, she angrily and repeatedly denies it, saying that her husband would not have put "the nanny-goat's horns" on her head. There is also an actual goat that is troubling her. (Oddly enough, "corna" and "cornuta" are not among the many Gratuitous Italian words used in the play.) | |
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In And God Created Woman when Juliette and Michel are walking home after their wedding, a man sitting on a boat mocks Michel by sing-songing to him "The husband wears horns", since everyone is expecting Juliette to be unfaithful and thus Michel is considered a fool for marrying her. | |
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Oberon had these in the The Sandman (1989) story which riffed on A Midsummer Night's Dream, because his wife Titania was cheating on him. | |
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In the first episode of The Adventures of Mini-Goddess, this is used as a joke: Urd is trying to help a small rat get a wife, and sets him up with an appliance of some kind. However, the appliance says that she was in love with another kitchen appliance, and the two run off together, leaving the rat standing by himself, with the shadow of a cow and horns extending from his body. | |
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In a Rat-Man scene set in Hell one devil with a particularly impressive set of horns asks a colleague "I wonder what our wives do to pass the time while we're at work". | |
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An episode of Cold Squad had a detective who was grilling a suspect mention that the suspect's wife was giving her husband "the horns" (the police had found out that she was cheating on him... with a 13 year-old boy). | |
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In an episode of How I Met Your Mother this is referenced by The Captain when he and his wife are splitting up. He says "I wear the horns of the cuckold" in the belief that she is in love with someone else. | |
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People experiencing the nightmares Catherine are turned into sheep, and as such have horns. One gets into the nightmares with relationship troubles, which most often include cheating and having cheating significant others, although not every sheep is there for cheating (Justin Bailey is having nightmares because his guilt issues are making him stall on engagement). | |
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