The traditional head-dress of the executioner is a fiction. In fact, the executioners did not hide their faces. An exception can be called the execution of some medieval kings.
The executioner had the right to conduct the wedding.
The executioner had incomes from the executed. At first he was allowed to take only what was under the belt, then they got the right to all the clothes of convicts.
The executioner had the right to take food in the markets for nothing, this right was granted so that he could receive food that he could not buy, because many refused to accept money from the hands of the executioner.
Executioner in the Middle Ages could engage in exorcism, the procedure for driving demons into a person. The fact is that torture was considered one of the most reliable ways to expel the evil spirit of the possessed body. Causing pain to the body, people seem to have tortured the demon forcing him to leave this body.
In the church, the executioner had to stand behind everyone at the door. And to the sacrament, the last one to approach.
In France, there were also female executioners. At the treasury of Louis the Holy from 1264 it is said "That the one who cursed, or acted illegally, according to the judge's decision, will be carved by rods, the face of his sex." Namely, a man is a man, and a woman is a woman without the presence of men.
If the executioner went to rest, he was obliged to offer the city a candidate for his post.
According to his position in society, the executioner was close to such lower strata of society as prostitutes and actors. A casual touch with the executioner was unpleasant to people.
The executioner often provided executioners with services. He traded parts of corpses and drugs made of them, as well as various details relating to the treasury. Such things as the "Hand of Glory", a brush severed from the criminal, and the piece of rope on which the offender was hanged, was often mentioned in various books on magic and alchemy.
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