Unicorns

Unicorns
ISBN-10
1904332684
ISBN-13
9781904332688
Series
Unicorns
Category
Fiction
Pages
96
Language
English
Published
2006-12
Publisher
AAPPL
Author
Nigel Suckling

Description

Unicorns are unique not just for their startling singular horn but because people carried on believing in them long after dragons, griffins, manticores and a host of other fanciful creatures had been consigned to myth and heraldry. Suckling covers the ancient tales and rumours that began the superstition, the wide-ranging influence of this creature, the early confusion between the mythical unicorn and the rhinoceros, its adoption as a Christian symbol; its use in heraldry, and the value of its horn as powerful medicine.

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