Bicorn and Chichevache are fabulous beasts that appear in European satirical works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Bicorn is a creature—part panther, part cow, with a human-like face [1] —that devours kind-hearted and devoted husbands and (because of their abundance) is …

May 5, 2017 · Chicheface is as starved as its counterpart Bigorne is satisfied. This etiolated creature was said to feed solely on wives who obeyed their husbands, and as such was skeletal and malnourished. Of French origin, it featured in a number of facetious works from the 15th century and on.

Chichevache: A medieval satire on domestic ideals, this skeletal cow symbolizes the rarity of obedient wives, reflecting societal absurdity.

Nov 5, 2021 · Chichevache is a mythological European monster fabled to feed on "good women". Chaucer may have borrowed the French word chichifache (thin face) to coin chichevache (thin or meagre cow). In English, 'Chichevache' literally means 'niggardly' or 'greedy cow'.

The Chichevache is a mythological European monster fabled to feed on good women. In Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this human-faced cow is perpetually starved to skin and bone due to the scarcity of obedient and faithful wives.

Nov 20, 1997 · A fabulous beast which fed solely on obedient wives and which was thus all skin and bone because its food was extremely scarce. Its antipode is the Bicorn, which fed on good and enduring husbands. The name was introduced by Chaucer, who changed the French chichifache ("thin face," or "ugly face") into Chichivache.

The science fiction manga Battle Angel Alita: Last Order features giant, bioengineered monsters named Bicorne and Chichevache. Bicorns are a recurring creature in the Megami Tensei video game franchise. A Bicorn is featured in the Overlord light-novel and anime series.

The only known use of the noun Chichevache is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for Chichevache is from around 1405, in the writing of Geoffrey Chaucer, poet and administrator.

Chichevache (AKA anchevache or thingut) is a mythical female monster, believed to have survived by eating good and virtuous women. Fables describe Chichevache as a thin cow-faced creature. It was said to be poorly nourished because virtuous women were rare.

Chichevache, a monster fabled to feed on good women, and starved, from the scarcity of them, to skin and bone, in contrast with another called Bicorn, that fed on good men, who are more plentiful, and was fat and plump.