Tag: mythical creature
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UW – Grimm’s Unicorn
In the Grimms’ Fairytale about the brave Little Tailor, a King tries to dispose of the hero by setting him impossible tasks, starting with the slaying of two giants that have been terrorizing the land and rashly promising the tailor half the kingdom and his daughters hand in marriage if he succeeds. Well, the wily…
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UW – “…Free as the hurricane…”
Lo! In the mute, mid wilderness, What wondrous creature? – of no kind! – His burning lair doth largely press – Gaze fixt – and feeding on the wind? From his stately forehead springs Piercing to heaven, a radiant horn, – Lo! The compeer of lion-kings! The steer self-armed, the Unicorn! Ever heard of, never…
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Unicorn Week – My Precious
Owing to some unicorns actually having existed over time, by whichever means, the unicorn embodies an ideal that one could say, teases us, with a possibility, a glimmer of hope that they may be real. For some, beyond doubt. It is perhaps a dream like creature, one that hints that it just may be real…
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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 – 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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