This page is devoted to the beautiful, strange
and fascinating phenomena of unicorns.
The name "unicorn" comes from the
Latin "unus" which means "one"
and "cornu" which means "horn".
The unicorn is a mythical and heraldic animal. It is reputed,
by
mediaeval writers, as having the legs of a buck, the tail of a
lion
head and body of a horse, and a single horn, white at the base,
black
in the middle and red at the tip.The body of the animal is white.
Over the years the unicorn has become totally like
a white horse,
with a single horn on its head.
Hunters were supposed to be able to catch a unicorn
only by using a virgin
as "bait". The virgin was supposed to be left in the
unicorn's haunts, and when
a unicorn caught sight of the damsel, it would run to the girl
and
lie down at her feet. Then the hunter would easily capture the
unicorn.
Another popular belief was that a unicorn could
dip its horn into any
liquid, and tell if it was poison or not.
