#chichevache

The Chichevache is a creature written about in certain European works of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is described as a cow-like animal with a human face.

Chichevache is usually partnered with the Bicorn. Satirically, the Bicorn is said to devour devoted husbands, and is therefore very plump. By contrast, the Chichevache devours obedient wives, and due to their scarcity, is depicted as emaciated and always hungry.

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(The anime depiction there is from Re:Monster) Traditionally, the Bicorn was a bloated cow-like creature with aspects of a Panther and occasionally a man’s face. I can’t seem to find an actual origin for this, but I may have just not looked hard enough... Oddly, it often lacks actual horns in depictions despite it’s name meaning “Two Horns” Sort of an “Anti-Unicorn,” the Bicorn consumes faithful husbands and grows bloated and fat. The emaciated partner, occasionally described as his Wife (In John Lydgate’s Bycorne and Chychevache which you can read here,) is called a Chichevache. It’s skinny and eats poorly because there aren’t a lot of faithful wives... Medieval jokes are like that.  The original fable is apparently French, though it is often attributed to The Canturbury Tales, and the term may come from the word “chichifache” meaning “Thin Face” “Vache” means cow, so yeah, possibly a pun. Apparently, these were popular to depict on church furniture and misericords

  More modern depictions tend toward an “evil unicorn” look - Now it is consistently depicted as a vicious black horse with two large, curved goat horns most often green or yellow. The anti-unicorn aspects are emphasized over the “Eating faithful husbands and wives” aspect. For instance, in Overlord, a Bicorn can only be ridden by a non-virgin and the touch of virgins weakens it. The Monster Girl Encyclopia has a Unicorn transform into a Bicorn is their partner cheats on them or if a unicorn has sex with a non-virgin (It’s a waifu monstergirl thing.) The depictions here are from Shin Megami Tensei, Yu Gi Oh, Fantacia, Overlord, and Fate/Grand Order (Excluding the first one, which I can’t find a source of.) They are mentioned in Harry Potter and Battle Angel Ailita.

Name: Chichevache

Alternate Names: Thin Face, Famine Cattle (mythika only)

Mythology: Medieval European Mythology

Size: Large, but very thin

Environment: Anywhere famine shows it’s horrible face

In Mythika: Cattle of the Horseman of Famine, Chichevache are sickly looking bovine-creatures with humanoid faces. Looking at these pathetic creatures takes away taste or hunger and people that spend too much time around these abominations literally drive themselves to starvation, becoming thin and without any joy, until they succumb to this magical form of anorexia and die, these poor souls will be reborn as Gaki, or hungry dead, eating all the food they missed in the last days of their cursed lives. Chichevache are themselves without need to eat, but when they eat they only eat particular food such as pure-hearted women without sin in their hearts, because creatures without ANY sin are hard to come by, they rarely feed at all. 

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichevache

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