Who is a unicorn? Detailed answer

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Who is a unicorn?

In the old days, traveling to distant lands was a long and dangerous undertaking. Those who dared to commit them and returned safely home, told in their homeland about strange and wonderful things they met in a foreign land. Often it was about mythical animals, unusual and terrible.

Passed from mouth to mouth, these stories became even more amazing over time. Sailors reported sea snakes - terrible monsters 60 meters long and 6 meters thick with bright blue eyes that devoured people; about mermaids with long green hair and shiny scaly tails that inhabited the seas and invited sailors to their abyss to perish.

Some travelers claimed that in distant countries where they happened to visit, they met a strange creature - a unicorn. The head and body of this animal were the same as those of a horse, the beard on the muzzle resembled that of a goat, and the tail looked the same as that of a lion! But most importantly, a long twisted horn flaunted on the forehead of the unicorn, which contained magical power. It was said that with the help of it you can determine the presence of poison in the liquid, and therefore the search for these horns was carried out for a long time.

It is clear that these searches were fruitless, because unicorns never really existed, although many people believed otherwise. Another mythical animal, which many considered quite real, was the griffin, a cross between a lion and an eagle. The Greeks told stories about centaurs - half-humans, half-horses. Belief in terrible fire-breathing dragons was also extremely widespread.

Although modern scientists are trying to understand what real animals became the prototypes of mythical creatures, no one knows why people believed that unicorns, centaurs and griffins existed. By the way, it is curious that the image of a unicorn was on the old Russian cannons, so called "unicorns".

Author: Likum A.

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