Medieval Question - Not Exactly Shackles?

Question

Asked before, but added info, and no one's been able to answer.

Hard to explain, but I'm looking for the term for what these would've been...if they even existed.

They are mitts or gloves of sorts, without fingers. Each one would've been 2 pieces and would've had key locks of sorts on the outside. The hand and wrist would've been set inside, then the top put over it. Each would have a "shelf" inside with a curved cut out, to allow for a tight fit, around the wrist and fist, then lock together. They would've been made of metal...iron? Not actually hand cuffs but whole hand or fist cuffs.

Also, how much would one weigh if made of iron?

I'm writing a story where I've a magical character, who is "shackled" in these things so she can't use her hands in casting spells.

Cuffs, shackles, and Manacles are all just around the wrist, leaving the hand exposed. Needs to be like a oven mitt without the thumb...but iron.

Okay...it's NOT bondage. The character is taken prisoner for being a Priestess of Io in a long line of Dragons, to which this particular fallen angel has taken a disliking to over the years. In the story, I've just explained how she was "cuffed." But I was hoping there might actually be something out there with a real name. You see them and deviations of them in sci-fi shows and the like. Many time in those, the cuffs are like a metal hand muff, where both hands are inserted into a tube, one from each side, and they're connected at the center. These are essentially the same, but separate, like putting metal socks over each hand...only obviously bigger, and they lock together to lock the hand or more likely, closed fist into. They'd be extremely heavy, making it hard to lift one's arm and if restrained properly, they wouldn't be able to move.

Answer 1

Finger pillories often went by the name of finger stocks.

Our Gauntlets are fully articulated and made in 18 gauge stainless steel, avoiding the possibility of corrosion problems. Normally worn over leather gloves, the gauntlets are attached by leather straps. The rolled cuffs avoid the possibility of arm abrasions.

Answer 2

I've never seen anything like that, but I'll look for some and edit if I find them--I'm curious now--I think I remember something like that from a dungeon tour I took twenty years ago.

Since it is a fantasy story, you could name it yourself--in a world where people cast spells with their hands, they'd be as common as handcuffs and might have a different design than the torture devices of this world.

Answer 3

Since people are very evidently not familiar with this type of bondage, it seems to me it would create more impact if you actually described how this person is shackled instead of trying to find a word for it that nobody would understand anyway.

Answer 4

finger/hand pillory is the best term I guess.

Problem is that such a device is without use in our world, so it was most likely never made.

Describing it would be the best option, unless you want to change it to hands wrapped in a fist with ling strips of cloth (just as believable).