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Interesting Fact: Who is he and why does he have a dog's head?

While similar creatures continue to appear in fairy tales and stories, many travelers and scholars in the Middle Ages believed them to be as real as cows or chickens. Some, like the famous Marco Polo, claimed to have seen cynocephali in person. Polo described his encounter with people having dog heads.

According to the renowned Venetian merchant and traveler, cynocephali inhabit the Andaman Islands off the eastern coast of India. He referred to them as barbarians but noted that they could farm, indicating they must be intelligent. Another Italian, a traveler and Franciscan – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine recorded that the armies of Ugedei (the third son of Genghis Khan) encountered and fought people with dog heads in Siberia. By the way, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine (1192-1262) is just as interesting a figure as Marco Polo, and his expedition to the court of the Great Khan of the Mongols had a rather close connection to us. Del Carpine set off on a mission with Benedict the Pole – the first Polish traveler who famously wrote the report of the first European expedition to the capital of the Mongol empire (which lasted 2.5 years).

The origins of the cynocephali remain unclear, but as early as the 1st century AD, Gaius Plinius Secondus described beings with dog heads in his work Naturalis Historia (Natural History). The Roman historian believed these beings lived in mountain caves in India, dressed in the skins of hunted animals, and communicated by barking. They were a people of hunters skilled in the use of spears and short bows. In later centuries, cynocephali appeared in writings from Ratrammus of Corbie, who attempted in his work Epistola de Cynocephalis to determine whether beings with dog heads were more human or animal (he concluded they were human because they covered their genitals).

Could historians and travelers have been mistaken? In the Orthodox Church, there is still a strong belief that St. Christopher (the martyr whose image hangs as a medal on car mirrors) was born as a cynocephalus child and later became human through higher powers. Greek tradition is not unfamiliar with images of St. Christopher as a giant with a dog’s head. In Ireland, he was believed to be a pagan giant named Reprobus (of course with a dog’s head), who was transformed only through baptism and the acceptance of true faith. Finnish tales also depict St. Christopher as a being with a canine face, but according to legend, he received it because he was tired of advances from the opposite sex and asked the Almighty to change his handsome face to something less pleasing to the eye. God granted St. Christopher’s request. In fact, He went a bit overboard.

Today, we no longer believe in the existence of cynocephali. I completely don't understand why, as there are still so many credible testimonies.

That's why we created the dentist-cynocephalus. Don’t say it wouldn’t be nice to sit in his chair.