Unicorns: Magical Icons or Violent Beasts? | Monstrum
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Unicorns are all over the place in popular culture these days - movies, TV shows, toys, clothing and books for children and adults alike. But you might be interested to learn that the majestic, all-white horse with a spiralized horn on its forehead is just one version of the many varieties of unicorn that have appeared in folklore throughout history.
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I'm convinced some ancient dude saw a rhino once and described it as a large pale horse with a single horn to his peers back home.
If Unicorns were real (like Rhinos) there would be people who'd assume they were gentle and try em in the wild
Love that we've now gotten TWO episodes about unicorns on this channel, such an interesting part of Eurasian mythologies
I hate that it is legitimately hard to find anything unicorn related nowadays that isn't pink and cutesy. I've always loved the wild, fierce beast, and now that they're popular, I'm being left out.
In the last Narnia book, The Last Battle, there is a male unicorn named Jewel who is fully sentient, talks like a courtly noble, is a friend of the king, is gentle around friends, but is also an adept and violent warrior who kills someone with his horn fairly early on in the story. The inclusion of a steed for Peter in the movie of Lion Witch Wardrobe though visually intense had the potential to confuse or muddle all those ideas, even if it didnt technically go against the Lore
Unicorns, fairies, seems like much of what gets marketed to children has an ominous historical presence
I was introduced to The Unicorn Tapestries, up close and personal, when I was about 6 years old, when my parents took me on a trip to the museum (One thing you don't mention here is that the scenes depicted are
Man, be nice if one day y'all cover more equid related folklore creatures like the pegasus and man eating mares of Diomedes. Equids in fiction have made me understood that equids can be unique and gorgeous like a elegant and intelliigent pegasus while terrifying and intimidating with their complicated and broad large appearance like the untamable and vicious man eating mares of Diomedes.
Twilight sparkle isn't a unicorn. She's an alicorn. If it has wings it's not a unicorn. And that isn't just a My Little Pony thing, they have just made the phrase more well known.
"We've adopted this idea to apply the name 'unicorn' to elusive and highly sought after prizes..." Will Dr. Z say it? Will she? "...or polyamorous companion." SHE SAID IT! An oddly specific polyamorous conventionally attractive bisexual woman with no boyfriend or emotional needs.
If you've seen a rhinoceros, you've seen a unicorn. And let me tell you, they're terrifying.
The whole 'white horned ass with a red head/neck' is a pretty spot on description of a scimitar horned oryx, actually. The Egyptians and late Romans semi-domesticated them, and it's not uncommon to find one with only one horn left bc those things are pretty fragile :)
Narwhals were those marine unicorns. The unicorn horn is a narwhal tusk. And oooh, Legend, Stardust, and the Last Unicorn - those beautiful films!!! I have a unicorn plushie called Lilac for her colour in my bed right now...
There's a feral unicorn in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel 'Lords & Ladies', it's a savage pet of the elves who are malicious beings.
the funny thing about the scottish use of the unicorn in it´s crest is that the unicorn was thought to hunt and eat Lions and well England had a lion so...
In the 1980s, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus promoted to be in possession of a real, living unicorn. My grandma took me and my younger brother & sister to see that circus when it came to Los Angeles at one point. The "unicorn" that was paraded around the big-top at the end of the show seemed to actually be a one-horned goat. (The single horn was center lined on top of the animal's head.)
Here in Scotland, the unicorn is our national animal. It's traditionally depicted in chains and often people assume that English people did this to it, but in fact it was chained long before the Act of Union or even the Union of the Crowns, simply because it was too wild and dangerous to be tamed.
That slow motion stab and associated sound effect at the opening was a gift.
The last unicorn...great movie
- There is also a Unicorn in the nursery rhyme called “The Lion & the Unicorn” which would later be used by Lewis Carroll who placed as characters in his novel “Through the Looking-Glass”