Cuckold Community Humiliation Parade

Did you know that in old Europe there used to be such a thing as a Cuckold Community Humiliation Parade so to speak? The term cuckold came from a certain variety of cuckoo’s laying their eggs in other bird’s nests, freeing themselves from the need to nurture the eggs to hatching. The female equivalent cuckquean first appears in English literature in 1562. Cuckold refers to the fact that the man being cuckolded is the last to know about his wife’s infidelity. This also refers to a tradition claiming that in villages of European time, the community would gather to collectively humiliate a man whose wife gave birth to a child that was not his own. This is where the humiliation aspect of the cuckolding first came into play. According to this legend, a parade was held in which the hapless husband was forced into wearing antlers on his head as a symbol of his wife’s infidelity