The Truth about UnicornsDescribes the origins of the unicorn, including the real-life animals that inspired it, and the various myths told about unicorns throughout the world. |
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... Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder ( A.D. 23-79 ) may have read Julius Caesar's book , for he , too , wrote of a unicorn with a staglike head . But Pliny's unicorn , like Ctesias's , lived in India . " The Indians hunt many wild beasts ...
... Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder ( A.D. 23-79 ) may have read Julius Caesar's book , for he , too , wrote of a unicorn with a staglike head . But Pliny's unicorn , like Ctesias's , lived in India . " The Indians hunt many wild beasts ...
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... Roman arenas , as Aelian described the young unicorns fighting at the palace of the Indian king . Did Aelian and the other Greek and Roman writers have any doubts that unicorns really lived in India and other places ? Apparently not ...
... Roman arenas , as Aelian described the young unicorns fighting at the palace of the Indian king . Did Aelian and the other Greek and Roman writers have any doubts that unicorns really lived in India and other places ? Apparently not ...
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... Roman Emperor Charles V , who ruled between 1519 and 1556 , gave a German noble two horns as payment for a debt equal to a million dollars in today's money . When Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne of England in 1558 , an inventory ...
... Roman Emperor Charles V , who ruled between 1519 and 1556 , gave a German noble two horns as payment for a debt equal to a million dollars in today's money . When Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne of England in 1558 , an inventory ...
Contents
A World of Unicorns | 3 |
A Horses Body a Stags Head and | 14 |
The Kilin of China | 23 |
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Aelian ALA Notable Children's AMERICAN MUSEUM amphisbena ancient animal animal's antelope beast bestiaries China Chinese CLEVELAND MUSEUM CLOISTERS COLLECTION COLLECTIONS AT ROSENBORG creature Ctesias Ctesias's Cuvier Emperor Fu Hsi European father feet forehead forest Frobisher Fu Hsi gentle goat Greek head Hercynian Forest Hildegarde horn buds hunters India Indian rhino Indian rhinoceros ivory JAMES CROSS GIBLIN Jesus Kasyapa ki-lin kind of unicorn king lion Living Unicorn maiden Marini Martin Frobisher METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Michael McDermott middle Monoclonius MUSEUM OF ART MUSEUM OF NATURAL narwhal narwhal tusk NATURAL HISTORY never noble Notable Children's Book Ole Worm one-horned Indian oryx Paré Physiologus piece of horn poison powerful princess Risharinga Rochefoucauld family Roman ROSENBORG PALACE royal arms ROYAL DANISH COLLECTIONS scientists sea unicorn Septuagint Shanta single horn skull stag hunt stories about unicorns symbol throne unicorn appears unicorn horns unicorn hunt unicorn legend Unicorn Tapestries wrote York young