23 OCTOBER 1964, Page 15

AFTERTHOUGHT ON CUCKOLDS

SIR,----After Alan Brien's article on the horns of the cuckold I too waited in vain for the correct explana- tion. I think the answer could be that the two fingers were held behind the cuckold's head, for all except him to see, and conferred on him (by way of a joke) the sexual powers of the horned ones of mythology, to help him keep his wife at home.