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What happened to the unicorns?
That has been the question of many people over
the past few years. Most of them however, seem inclined
to believe the story of the 'Noah's Ark'. But I
am not, for several reasons - first, God flooding
the world is physically impossible, second, the
unicorns would not hide and be left out on the flooded
land, they're proud but not that stupid, third, the story only makes sense to those
who believe in God.
My opinion is that the song was made up because
of the man's unwillingness to admit his mistake.
There had been encounters of unicorns over
the past few years, some of which only the encounterers
know about. Really, if you saw such a beautiful,
rare, mythical beast as a unicorn, would you really
jump to the journalist about it, and have scientists
attach wires and devices to the creature?
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The unicorns lived in harmony with all the other
creatures, healing injured animals, conning the
water, and receiving the well-deserved respect.
But when the land was invaded by human greed and
cruelty, there was no space left for the unicorns,
who were particularly unfamiliar with the danger
the humans presented. Invincible to tricksters,
but sensitive to innocence, it became a tempting target for
humans, whose greed drove the intelligence. The
hunters would wait for the unicorn to come to a
young maid, the maid would slip a golden bridle
onto the unicorn's head, and then the hunters would attack it.
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The horn of the unicorn, the alicorn, served
for many purposes. Unfortunately for the animal,
many, - or most of them - worked without the horn
attached to the unicorn. The alicorn is particularly
famous for detecting and curing poison and diseases.
If you took an alicorn and used it to draw a circle
on the ground, then put a poisonous animal inside
the circle, the animal would not leave the circle,
and starve. If you put an alicorn inside a glass
of poisoned drink, the poison would lose its effectiveness.
There are many more ways for the horn to interact
with poison, or other bad substances. These qualities
made the alicorn a popular ingredient, especially
in Medieval Italy, where poisoning was a common
way of murder.
There is also a legend of a ruby stone called
Carbuncle, the king of gems. It is believed to be
found at the base of the horn of the most ancient
male unicorns. Now the Carbuncle is believed to
be made of crystallised blood at the horn.
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The European unicorn, the most famous one, (among
the Chinese and the African breeds) is not the well-known
"horse with a horn". It may look like
a horse, but actually it descended from an antelope.
The animal had two spiraled horns, placed one after
the other on the forehead. Then one of the horns
grew in. The European unicorn has two-toed hoofs,
the tail is either a horse one, or a "lion" one very
overgrown with hair (probably the latter).
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Right now there are very few unicorns living
in the world, perhaps little more than a dozen for
the planet. They are hiding in the deepest and most
untouched parts of the largest forests, mostly in
Asia, India, and some parts of America. Are unicorns
fact or fiction? You have to decide for yourself,
for if you don't believe in them as real, although magical
animals, your children will never forgive us if
we allow such a magnificent animal to become
extinct.
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