A man accused of trying to enter Tampa’s Mons Venus strip club armed with a gun and wearing a devil mask has been sentenced to a decade in state prison as part of a deal with prosecutors. Michael ...

They still have to negotiate the devil details, but it is a clear statement ... The freedom to refuse to wear a mask to protect their vulnerable neighbors from a deadly contagion.

It apparently originates from a 1639 carnival episode when grand master Giovanni Paolo Lascaris banned women from wearing masks, equating them with the devil. The masks on display are in fact ...