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Unicorn Week – Dream Unicorn
The saintly hermit, halfway through his prayers stopped suddenly, and raised his eyes to behold the unbelievable: for there before him stood the legendary creature, startling white, that had approached soundlessly, pleading with his eyes. The legs, so delicately formed, balanced a body wrought of finest ivory. And as he moved, his coat shone like…
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Unicorn Week – HMS UNICORN
Linking an age when most people still believed in unicorns , not yet having felt the tide of skepticism spreading from the ivory towers, to one in which the reverse is probably true, is the aptly named wooden frigate HMS Unicorn. One of the longest serving ships in the British Royal Navy, it was built…
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Unicorn Week – Friar Felix Faber
On route from Jerusalem to Cairo via Mt Sinai a ‘trustworthy’ witness of a unicorn sighting, Friar Felix Faber who along with several other travellers in 1483, with the aid and publication of Erhard Reuwich a Dutch artist also with the group. They stopped for a rest in the mountains one day when : Towards…
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Unicorn Week – The Devils Night Mare
Though the Bible gave credibility to the unicorn as a wild and intractable beast, it did not offer much in the way of description, as such it fell to folklore that grew around the various literary fragments. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Cloisters, a complex allegory of a Unicorn Hunt is…
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Unicorn Week – Christs’ White Horse
The Golden Legend is a collection of parables published in the 13th Century by James of Viraggio, Archbishop of Genoa, though believed to be an adaptation of a Buddhist parable in India, wherein a preacher named Barlaam was revered as a Christian saint, some believe the unicorn tale to represent an Indian rhino though through…
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Unicorn Week – Jesus! Its A Horse!
Around the 3rd Century BC, one King Ptolemy II of Egypt enlisted the help of seventy or seventy two scholars (sources vary on the exact amount) of Jewish descent to produce a Greek translation of the Old Testament, funnily enough, the word unicorn came into the bible quite by accident, of translation that is. Now…
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Unicorn Week – God’s Ponies
The King James Bible Has Seven References To Unicorns God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn Numbers 23:22, 24:8 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to…
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Unicorn Week – It’s Alive!
In the province of Agaus [ in Ethiopia ] has been seen the Unicorn, that beast so much talked of and so little known; the prodigious Swiftness with which this creature runs from one Wood into another has given me no opportunity of examining it particularly, yet i have had so near a sight of…
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Unicorn Week – To Horn or Not To Horn?
Martin Frobisher presented his Narwhal tusk to Queen Elizabeth I in 1577 who had stumbled upon it in his own strait no less, Frobisher’s Strait that is, where I here you ask? Canada Eh. This Narwhal tusk would soon enter the Crown Jewels as the Horn Of Windsor. Did Frobisher know what a Narwhal was?…
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Unicorn Week – ‘It’s For Medicinal Purposes, Doc’
‘Twas the Century of The Sixteenth, the place – Zurich, having received the wisdom of the ancients about the precious horn of unicorn, Dr. Conrad Gesner writes – This horn is useful and beneficial against epilepsy, pestilential fever, rabies, proliferation and infection of other animals and vermin, and against worms within the body from which…
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