

Years later, the same mage attempted to summon another creature, but instead the chicken appeared again. The chicken managed to survive and grew in power.

The mage grew angry at his failure and banished the chicken to the Abyss. The mage's spell failed and instead of a demon, he summoned a chicken. Īnother theory, also from the Book on chickens, says that he was created in the Second Age by a mage who was attempting to summon a demon and bind it to his will. He trained himself using logs as dummies and one day he hopped over the gate to freedom. A differing account was presented by a chicken in the Postbag from the Hedge, who described the Evil Chicken as tormented and isolated in his pen and desperate to escape. The chicken blamed his kin for the coup's failure and swore revenge on all chickens and humans. He became aware that he and his brethren were prisoners of the humans and then organised the chickens and rebelled against their captors however, all the chickens were slaughtered with ease. One theory, presented in the book on chickens, states that the Evil Chicken started out as a chicken of above-average intelligence. A depiction of the evil chicken atop a pile of skulls.
