Horned Relatives

Narwhals are very real creatures that have an extremely lengthy tusk or horn that protrudes outward just above their mouths. These creatures are a breed of whale and therefore and bound to water. They are extremely social and intellectual beings.

Unicorns and Narwhals are distant relatives. I guess some of you readers may not believe this since one beast is land-ridden while the other frolics in the open waters; however, this is truth! Unicorns and Narwhals both evolved from another horned animal that was both land and water compatible. Somewhere, many many many generations back, there was a error in mating and two separate beings were created, both horned, but were either only land or only water compatible.

Nevertheless, for as long as can be documented, Unicorns and Narwhals have been hunted, murdered and robbed of their horns. It was believed that their horns contained magical powers that gave owner's great advantages in life.

A Little Bit Of Magic.....In The Deep Sea!

A picture of the rare deep sea unicorn has been captured!! This is quite an exciting discovery! There has not been a deep sea uni spotting in over 18 decades. Mother-nature must be thanked for the creation of this still thriving wonderful water animal. I hope that everyone shares in the joy of this discovery. Tell a loved one!!! Spread the good news!!! The Sea-Unicorn IS STILL ALIVE!!!!

The Horn of the Unicorn has MAGICAL POWERS!

The horn of the unicorn has been sought after for centuries. In the
west, it was thought to have magical properties, and could purify poisons.

Therefore, it was a very valuable commodity to have.  Pope Paul III is said
to have paid 12,000 pieces of gold for one, but James I of England got a
much better deal for his, only paying 10,000 pounds Sterling for one.  The
horn of the narwhal was a common substitute for that of the unicorn for
those unscrupulous businessmen.

 Because of that problem, a common test to determine the validity of a
unicorn horn was to use its magical properties of purification.  David De
Pomis wrote, 'There is very little of the true horn to be found, most of
that which is sold as such being either stag's horn, or elephant's tusk.  A
true test by which one may know the genuine horn from the false:  Place the
horn in a vessel of any sort of material you like, and with it three or
four large and live scorpions, keeping the vessel covered.  If you find
four hours later that the scorpions are dead or almost lifeless, the horn
is a good one, and there is not enough money in the world to pay for it'.

Uses of Unicorn Horn

Many types of horns were sold as unicorn horns, which were highly sought-after as a defence against poison. One of many references is Ctesias's reports on the unicorn (or perhaps the rhinoceros) in India:

Those who drink out of cups made from [the horn] are proof against convulsions, epilepsy, and even poison, provided that before or after having taken it they drink some wine or water or other liquid out of these cups.^[2]

The ability of unicorn horns to neutralize poison has been touted since the time of Aristotle.^[3] The English ambassador to the French court was treated in 1596 with medicine containing "musk, amber, gold, pearl and unicorn’s horn", the efficacy of the ingredients being directly related to their rarity and expense.^[4]

^-from animals.y2u.co.uk

The Origin of Unicorns

The origin of unicorns is a wishy-washy subject...nobody knows for SURE how they came to be but here are a few speculations:

from monstrous.com:

The unicorn is an archetypal monster, present both in eastern and western mythology. In the Bible, God is said to have the strength of a unicorn. [Num 23:22 & 24:8]; The warlike fierceness of the unicorn is referred to when Ephraim and Manasseh are described as being like the horns of unicorns. [Deu 33:17]; The terrifying destruction of Idumea is completed when God sends unicorns and wild bulls to attack the people. [Isa 34:8 see also Psa. 92:10 & Psa 22:21]

Modern zoologists have generally disbelieved the existence of the unicorn. Yet there are animals bearing on their heads a bony protuberance more or less like a horn, which may have given rise to the story. The rhinoceros horn, as it is called, is such a protuberance, though it does not exceed a few inches in height, and is far from agreeing with the descriptions of the horn of the unicorn. The nearest approach to a horn in the middle of the forehead is exhibited in the bony protuberance on the forehead of the giraffe; but this also is short and blunt, and is not the only horn of the animal, but a third horn, standing in front of the two others.

Other believes that the narwhales, along with the Indian Rhinoceros (which only has one ‘horn’) are creatures that, through travelers’ exaggerations, became the fabled unicorn. The narwhale is a whale that has a single tusk protruding from its forehead. One can admire two carved narwhal horn in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and in the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside (NMGM); the two are thought to be a pair. The horn is 110 cm long with a diameter of 5.2 cm tapering to 2.5 cm.

The Oryx, a desert antilope, is also a potential candidate.

from wikipedia.com:

Among numerous finds of prehistoric bones found at Einhornhöhle (Unicorn Cave) in Germany's Harz Mountains, some were selected and reconstructed by the mayor, of Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke, as a unicorn in 1663. Claims that the so-called unicorn had only two legs (and was constructed from fossil bones of mammoths and other animals) are contradicted or explained by accounts that souvenir-seekers plundered the skeleton; these accounts further claim that, perhaps remarkably, the souvenir-hunters left the skull, with horn. The skeleton was examined by Gottfried Leibniz, who had previously doubted the existence of the unicorn, but was convinced thereby.^[13]

Baron Georges Cuvier maintained that as the unicorn was cloven-hoofed it must therefore have a cloven skull (making impossible the growth of a single horn); to disprove this, Dr. W. Franklin Dove, a University of Maine professor, artificially fused the horn buds of a calf together, creating a one-horned bull.^[14]

P. T. Barnum once exhibited a unicorn skeleton, which was exposed as a hoax.

Since the rhinoceros is the only known extant land animal to possess a single horn, it has often been supposed that the unicorn legend originated from encounters between Europeans and rhinoceroses. The Woolly Rhinoceros would have been quite familiar to ice age people, or the legend may have been based on the surviving rhinoceroses of Africa. Europeans and West Asians have visited Sub-Saharan Africa for as long as we have records.

Chinese people from the time of the Han Dynasty had also visited East Africa, which may account for their odd legends of 'one-horned ogres'. The Ming Dynasty voyages of Zheng He brought back giraffes, which were identified by the Chinese with another creature from their own legends, the Qilin, a deer-like creature sometimes also depicted with a single horn.

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