This is called the Scold’s Bridle from medieval Scotland.
The church decreed that it was sinful to allow a woman to talk back to the husband. And so women had these masks locked onto their heads that painfully clamped their mouths shut and humiliated them in public.
Just a little reminder of the way the world was only four centuries ago.
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