Tag: myths
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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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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 – 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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