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In heraldry the unicorn is best known as a symbol of Scotland: the unicorn was believed to be the natural enemy of the lion – a symbol that the English royals had adopted around a hundred years before [32] Two unicorns supported the royal arms of the King of Scots and Duke of Rothesay, and since the 1707 union of England and Scotland, the ...
A winged unicorn (cerapter, flying unicorn, unisus, or 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 cornū ...
The best known Elasmotherium species, E. sibiricum, sometimes called the Siberian unicorn, [4] was among the largest known rhinoceroses, with an estimated body mass of around 4.5 tonnes (9,900 lb), comparable to an elephant, and is often conjectured to have borne a single very large horn. However, no horn has ever been found, and other authors ...
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. [1]
Haizum – horse of the archangel Gabriel (Islam) Hippogriff – winged horse with the head and upper body of an eagle (French, England) Ipotane – half-horse, half-humans, original centaurs (Greek) Karkadann – monstrous, highly aggressive unicorn (India, Persia) Kotobuki – Yokai with traits of all members of the Chinese zodiac
Glær, a horse listed in both the Grímnismál and Gylfaginning [5] Grani, the horse of Sigurð [6] Gulltoppr, the horse of Heimdallr [7] Gyllir, a horse whose name translates to "the golden coloured one" [8] Hamskerpir and Garðrofa, the parents of Hófvarpnir [9] Hófvarpnir, horse of the goddess Gná [1] Hrímfaxi, Nótt's horse [10 ...
The horse head mask is a latex mask representing a horse head originally manufactured by novelty purveyor Archie McPhee, and now widely available from other manufacturers. It covers the entire head and is typically part of a Halloween costume, or is worn at other times to be funny, shocking, incongruous, or hip , or to disguise one's identity.
The Unicorn Stakes (Japanese ユニコーンステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run in April over a distance of 1,900 metres on dirt at Kyoto Racecourse. [ 1 ] The race was first run in 1996 and has held Grade 3 status ever since.