This is kind of off-topic, but I’m honestly not sure who else to ask or where to find the answer. I was wondering if you could tell me if medieval executioners actually wore black masks or if that is an idea concocted by Hollywood and such? If they didn’t, what did they wear? Or you could point me to someone else I could ask or a place I can find the answer if you want/can?

Yeah, this question is a bit off-topic and non-specific, but the black hood is a Hollywood thing. In medieval europe and the middle east, an executioner would just wear typical work clothes. This is a drawing from the margins of a court record showing German executioner Franz Schmidt of Germany carrying out someone’s sentence of death in the 1500s. Schmidt had learned his trade from his own…