UNICORN

 

22nd August 2018

Unicorns are legendary creatures and have special magical powers to grant wishes of those who are pure of heart. These white beauties with their spiral single horn are elusive and can be very difficult to spot in the real world today. Being known for hiding in forests around the world they can only be spotted by a pure of heart soul because they know that these people would never reveal their location to the outside world or those not worthy of seeing them.

Unicorns eat grass and hay, and their favourite time of day to eat this grass is early morning when its covered in fresh dew drops. They eat because they want to though, not because they need to as they sustain their energy from the magic and positivity around them.

Unicorns do not need to drink to survive, just like eating, but they like water as it is as natural and pure as they are.

Unicorns love to grant wishes to those who are deserving. Their magical powers will allow the wisher one special wish. All they need to do is place their hand gently on the unicorn, close their eyes and make a secret wish that only the unicorn can hear. The joy on the faces of those whose wishes have been granted is enough to keep a unicorn happy for life.

Unicorns cannot fly, they are earthbound creatures unlike their relatives the Pegasus .

Unicorns have supreme strength and can take down any being, even those as big as an elephant if needed. Although unicorns would never willingly harm another animal or human.

Although quite solitary creatures unicorn do you have families and elders who they follow and learn from just like us. Although you are  only ever likely to see one unicorn at a time do live in small groups.

Unicorns live for hundreds of years, as they are so difficult to spot no one knows just how old they can reach!

A unicorn horn is called an Alicorn. Also, the word for a winged horse! It is thought to have healing powers.

As they are such secret creatures spotting a unicorn can be very tricky. Here at The BIG Sheep we have a special connection with a unicorn who comes to see our guests every few months.

Unicorns, and indeed most mythical beasts, are very long-lived creatures. They can live for centuries. Their magic keeps them alive and healthy for many, many years, and time passes in a different way for them. The days seem to go more slowly because they are such swift creatures.

Unicorns are magical and powerful, so it takes a long time for the years to leave their mark on these great animals. They are free from many of the problems which other animals suffer from in old age. They do not get arthritis or cataracts, and they retain all their agility and swiftness. I think in my next life, I’d like to be reincarnated as a unicorn!

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT UNICORN. 

The National Unicorn day celebrate on 9 April .

1. The first known depiction of a unicorn—found in the Lascaux Caves of modern-day France—dates to around 15,000 BCE! Or so people thought, until they realized that the so-called Lascaux unicorn had two horns, drawn confusingly close together.

2. The earliest record of unicorns in Western literature belongs to Greek historian Ctesias. In the 5th century BCE, he wrote that the beast had a white body, purple head, blue eyes, and a multicolored horn—red at the tip, black in the middle, and white at the base.

3. In his travels, Marco Polo believed he stumbled across unicorns. He wrote, “They are very ugly brutes to look at. They are not at all such as we describe unicorns.” That’s because they were actually rhinoceroses.

4. Genghis Khan reportedly decided not to conquer India after meeting a unicorn, which bowed down to him; he viewed it as a sign from his dead father and turned his army back.

5. During the Dark Ages, when science famously took a back seat to illogical hunches, collections known as bestiaries listed the biological properties and medicinal use of known animals, which at the time included unicorns. It’s in these collections that virgins were first described as having great power over the creatures.

6. The King James version of the Old Testament contains nine references to unicorns, thanks to a mistranslation of the Hebrew word re’em. The original word was likely the Assyrian rimu (auroch), an extinct species of wild ox.

7. The legend that unicorn horns could counteract poison and purify water was bad news for narwhal populations, as the single tooth protruding from the front of the whale’s head made for a popular counterfeit. The Danes even had a throne made of narwhal horns.

8. At its height, “unicorn horn” was literally worth 10 times its weight in gold. In 1560, German merchants sold a unicorn horn for an astronomical 90,000 scudi—then about £18,000—to the pope. Pharmacies in London sold powdered unicorn horn as late as 1741.

9. Early unicorn heraldry can be found on the ancient seals of Babylonia and Assyria, but it’s most famously attached to Scotland’s King James III in the 1400s. Two gold coins of that era were even known as the unicorn and the half-unicorn!

10. If you’re looking to hunt a unicorn, but don’t know where to begin, try Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Since 1971, the university has issued permits to unicorn questers. Anyone embarking on such a search is advised to carry a flask of cognac and a pair of pinking shears.