The VERY Strange History of Unicorns

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  @KazRowe · 3 years ago · pinned

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  @caycecarson · 3 years ago

  Funny enough I’ve never seen the movie, but I did read the book The Last Unicorn and it has one of my favorite quotes. “Real magic can never be made by offering up someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”

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  @eternalenigma1628 · 2 years ago

  While working as an equestrian camp counselor, they encouraged us to come up with our own programs for our kids. Because I worked with the 5 years olds who&apos;s day was only 10% horseback riding and 90% horse - themed art projects, I started to set aside one of the art projects for a &quot;unicorn sighting&quot;. I strapped a fake horn to our pony Merrylegs and crouched beside him in the bushes so he was half hidden. A helper would bring the kids on a trail walk and they would spot him, close enough to see he had a horn but far enough that they couldn&apos;t tell that he was wearing a light halter. It was adorable to see those little kids get super excited and hear them talk about it for the rest of the day. Only a few truly believed they had seen a unicorn by the end of camp a few days later, but it was still fun to spread a little magic.

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  @karebushmarebu233 · 3 years ago (edited)

  As a Scot this video makes me happy, the unicorn is our national animal. Interestingly the national animal of England is a lion, as Kaz mentioned unicorns and lions are often depicted as battling each other

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  @Bootleg_Megumin · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MuCIqbTUXA&amp;t=902">15:02</a> that isn&apos;t a jackalope, but instead a wolpertinger. Jackalopes don&apos;t have wings or fangs unlike a wolpertinger

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• MF

  @mfuentes4961 · 3 years ago

  I had an almost concerning obsession with unicorns as a child so this video is like my Roman Empire lol 😂🦄

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  @WizardGateway · 2 years ago

  It’s weird because it wouldn’t really be unordinary for a horse with a horn to be real yet it isn’t

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  @laffyraffy407 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m kinda surprised you didn&apos;t touch on Molly Grue at all (though I also understand you must have been strapped for time). She was basically an inversion of the virginal maiden trope. I don&apos;t have the book on me so I can&apos;t pull exact quotes, but there&apos;s a scene where the unicorn and Schmendrick come across a noble woman who is calling out for a unicorn as part of a prenuptial ritual, and the unicorn doesn&apos;t go to her. When Schmendrick asks her why she didn&apos;t show herself, she replies with something along the lines of, &quot;she would have been terrified of me.&quot;<br><br>Yet when the pair meet Molly (completely accidentally on the part of the unicorn), Molly actually SEES the unicorn for what she is - not as a pretty mare, but a real, true UNICORN, and she weeps. She demands to know why now? &quot;Where were you when I was one of those innocent young maidens you come to? How dare you. How dare you come to me now, when I am this!&quot; And the unicorn consoles her.<br><br>It&apos;s never outright stated, but her age/appearance and her relation to Captain Cully imply that she&apos;s far from virginal. Yet Molly is the only one whom the unicorn allows to touch her. <br><br>Idk that always struck me, even when I was a little kid watching the movie for the first time - that Molly Grue, a woman &quot;past her prime&quot; and &quot;impure&quot; would not only be allowed to touch the unicorn, but to be consoled by her, to be befriended by her? It definitely made little me think long and hard about what makes a person &quot;pure.&quot;

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• CE

  @cecemepls0 · 2 years ago

  As a translator this unlocked a new fear in me. Imagine translating a SUPER important book, getting your translation wrong and accidentally create a mythical creature that exists for centuries to come. 🥴

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  @SIC647 · 3 years ago

  As a Dane I remember reading about how people in Scandinavia, especially Northern Scandinavia, who hunted the narwhals, took great care to perpetuate the myth of unicorns.<br>Because that meant that they could keep a monopoly, and sell &quot;unicorn&quot; horns at extremely high prices. <br>While no one else were able to find those beings, because they were looking in forests, not in the sea.

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  @maikol.1683 · 2 years ago

  The humour, the editing, the casual worship of Hildegard von Bingen, this was a blast to watch

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  @gregc5851 · 3 years ago

  This reminds me when my friend found out that narwhals were real animals, and were not sadly called uniwhales

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