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African unicorn
The accounts about the unicorn living in Africa became known to the Europeans in the sixteenth century. The contact with India established by the Portuguese allowed travelers to verify many stories of Ancient authorities, especially -
Qilin
Qílín (Chinese: 麒麟 or 騏驎; also latinized as ch'i-lin, ki-lin, ky-lin ) is legendary animal from Chinese mythology, frequently called the Chinese unicorn. Qilin is known as a humane and -
Indian ass
The Indian wild ass or Indian onager is a unicorn described by Ctesias. It is as big as a horse or larger, has white coat, crimson head and blue eyes. Its horn is white at -
Re'em
Re'em (Hebrew: רֶאֵם) is the biblical unicorn. The Bible mentions it seven times, always in the context of immense strength, indomitability and a long horn or horns rising in the direction of the sky -
Xiezhi
Xiezhi (Chinese: 獬豸) or zhi (廌) is a Chinese legendary creature, which looks like a goat with a single horn on its forehead. It can by nature distinguish the innocent from the guilty and -
Shadhavar
Shādhavār (شادهوار) or āras (آرس) is a unicorn found in the writings of Muslim scholars such as al-Qazwini or al-Damiri. According to al-Qazwini it lives in the furthest regions of Rûm (Rome -
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William Houghton
Rev. William Houghton was a British clergyman and naturalist. XLI.—On the Unicorn of the Ancients. By the Rev. W. Haughton, M.A., F.L.S. Few subjects of zoological interest have from time to -
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes 9. Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee? - In the previous part of the argument, God had appealed to the lion, the raven, the goats of the rock, the hind, and the -
Charles Gould
Charles Gould A belief in the unicorn, like that in the dragon, appears to have obtained among both Eastern and Western authors, at a very early period. In this case, however, it has survived the -
Edward Topsell
Edward Topsell Of the UNICORN. We are now come to the history of a Beast, whereof divers people in every age of the world have made great question, because of the rare vertues thereof; therefore -
John Jonston
John Jonston De Monocerote,& Asinis Cornutis. Monocerotis vocabulum, quod Latinis unius cornu animal sonat, pluribus animalibus competit: strictè tamen soli illi, quod ἀπό τȣ μόνȣ κερατος, à solo cornu dictum est,& ideò Unicornis,& Unicornu. Brachmanorum -
Fulgence Fresnel
Fulgence Fresnel Monsieur, J'ai à vous offrir quelques renseignements sur une question de zoologie sacrée qui a donné lieu, depuis Bochart, à de nombreuses et infructueuses recherches. Si mes renseignements ne sont pas entièrement -
Pierre Pomet
Pierre Pomet was a French pharmacist who was born in 1658 in Paris and died in 1699. Of the Unicorn. The Unicorn is an Animal which Naturalists describe under the Figure of a Horse, having -
Evariste Regis Huc
Évariste Régis Huc, frequently called Abbé Huc (in French: Abbot Huc), was a French missionary to Tibet. Le quatrième jour depuis notre départ de Ghiamda, après avoir traversé sur la glace un grand lac, nous -
Ctesias
Ctesias of Cnidus (Κτησίας ο Κνίδιος) was a Greek physician serving the Persian king Artaxerxes II Mnemon. He is known from two book written by him: Persica (Περσικά), in which he summarizes the history of -
Henry Beckles Willson
Henry Beckles Wilson There must be many thousands of grown-up readers of this magazine who can still recall the surprise and chagrin they felt on discovering that not one solitary specimen of so popular -
Aelian
Claudius Aelianus Ἵππους μονόκερως γῆ Ἰνδικὴ τίκτει, φασί, καὶ ὄνους μονόκερως ἡ αὐτὴ τρέφει, καὶ γίνεταί γε ἐκ τῶν κεράτων τῶνδε ἐκπώματα. καὶ εἴ τις ἐς αὐτὰ ἐμβάλοι φάρμακον θανατηφόρον, ὁ πιών, οὐδὲν ἐπιβουλὴ λυπήσει -
John Vinycomb
The Unicorn Yon lion placed two unicorns between That rampant with a siver sword is seen Is for the king of Scotland's banner known. —Ariosto (Hoole's translation) The lion and the unicorn fighting -
John Barrow
Early on the morning of the seventh [day], in consequence of one of the party having asserted that some years ago he had met with the drawing of an unicorn in a kloof of the -
Medieval unicorn
The unicorn known from medieval bestiaries, also called the rhinoceros in Greek, was first described in the allegorical animal book popularly called the Physiologus. It is a small animal similar to a kid (young goat -
John Timbs
Is the Unicorn fabulous? To this question we may reply, in the words of a writer of 1633, "Concerning the Unicorn, different opinions prevail among authors: some doubt, others deny, and a third class affirm
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