I find the mystical and legendary creature called the unicorn with a large horn project from the head.
Do you believe in unicorns? They look so beautiful in pictures. I wonder how they were thought of?
I don't believe they really exist but in European folklore, the unicorn is described as a white horse or goat-like creature with a long horn and hooves. They are beautiful.
Oh that is where they came from. It is a fascinating mythological creature. I have not seen the goat version depicted before.
I've never seen the goat version either! lol In the Middle Ages, it was described as a wild woodland creature and a symbol of purity and grace.
That explains why they are usually shown in white. I wonder if people believed they existed in the Middle Ages.
often depicted as a white horse-like or goat-like animal with a long horn and cloven hooves (sometimes a goat's beard). In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could be captured only by a virgin. In the encyclopedias, its horn was said to have the power to render poisoned water potable and to heal sickness. In medieval and Renaissance times, the tusk of the narwhal was sometimes sold as unicorn
Unicorn
The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. The unicorn was depicted in ancient seals of the Indus Valley Civilization and was mentioned by the ancient Greeks in accounts of natural history by various writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, Aelian and Cosmas Indicopleustes. The Bible also describes an animal, the re'em, which some versions translate as "unicorn".
In European folklore, the unicorn is