Unicorns

Are unicorns real? Here you will find out about the unicorn legend, and a bit of history.

With regard to whether there were real unicorns, they were mentioned in lots of literature - and....well there isn't any evidence, but we could believe.

They were hunted profusely, and it is said that is why we do not have any more.

A unicorn legend - which many people believed, is that they had healing properties in the unicorn horns.

People took the horns and ground them up into magic medicine.

Others reported that the really Beautiful ones had a huge jewel lodged right underneath the horn.

Unicorns can be ferocious...

They could actually be very ferocious when approached by hunters, and could indeed attack, but this is where the Mythology about young women comes into play.

Spirituality And Purity of the Unicorn

If you put a pure young woman (again the spiritual aspect) under a tree, any Unicorn in the forest, would be lured to her, immediately putting his head in her lap and going to sleep.

Apparently, beautiful young maidens were his achilles heel, or his soft spot.

Medieval Unicorns

The Medieval legends and art probably made unicorns the most famous.

If you are a believer in fantasy unicorns, we know that they were everything we have pictured in our imaginations.

Far East Unicorns

They were usually depicted as a large white horse with a single horn on its forehead. It has also been described as having the hind legs of an antelope, the tail of a lion, and the beard of a goat.

Many eastern cultures, claim that some of the unicorn mythology about these beautiful creatures may have been created from distorted reports of rhinoceroses.

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Pegasus

The image has changed from a goat-like creature, or an antelope, and we see him today as a marvelous equine (or horse) sometimes they were portrayed as unicorns with wings like Pegasus, and shining white with his purity.

This is a kind of flying fantasy horse.

Ancient-Unicorn

For more history of the unicorn read about the really old unicorn legends.