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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. In European literature and art, the unicorn has for the last thousand years or so been depicted as a white horse - or goat -like animal with a long straight horn with spiralling ...
A winged unicorn (cerapter, flying unicorn, unisus, pegacorn, unipeg[1]) is a fictional ungulate, typically portrayed as a horse, with wings like Pegasus and the horn of a unicorn. [2] In some literature and media, it has been referred to as an alicorn, a word derived from the Italian word alicorno, [3] (itself from Latin wing āla and horn ...
Qilin. The qilin (English: / tʃiˈlɪn / chee-LIN; Chinese: 麒麟) is a legendary hooved chimerical creature that appears in Chinese mythology, and is said to appear with the imminent arrival or passing of a sage or illustrious ruler. [1] Qilin are a specific type of the lin mythological family of one-horned beasts.
The monoceros was first described in Pliny the Elder 's Natural History as a creature with the body of a horse, the head of a stag (minus the antlers), the feet of an elephant, and the tail of a wild boar. It has one black horn in the middle of its forehead, which is two cubits (about 1 m or 3 feet) in length, and is impossible to capture alive.
Hippocampus (mythology) Winged hippocamp in an Art Deco fountain, Kansas City, Missouri, (1937) The hippocampus or hippocamp, also hippokampos (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, 'horse', and κάμπος, 'sea monster' [1]), often called a sea-horse[2] in English, [citation needed] is a ...
Lepus. Orion. Puppis. Visible at latitudes between + 75 ° and − 90 °. Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month of February. Monoceros (Greek: Μονόκερως, "unicorn") is a faint constellation on the celestial equator. Its definition is attributed to the 17th-century cartographer Petrus Plancius.
Shadhavar. This folio from Walters manuscript W659 depicts the Aras, an animal with one horn. Shâd'havâr (Arabic: شادهافار (Šādhāfār)) or Âras (آرس) is a legendary creature from medieval Muslim bestiaries resembling a unicorn. Al-Qazwini said that it lives in the country of Rūm (Byzantium) and that it has one horn with 42 ...
The unicorn throne in Denmark. A unicorn horn, also known as an alicorn, [1] is a legendary object whose reality was accepted in Europe and Asia from the earliest recorded times. This "horn" comes from the creature known as a unicorn, also known in the Hebrew Bible as a re'em or wild ox. [2] Many healing powers and antidotal virtues were ...