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Golden coins known as the unicorn and half-unicorn, both with a unicorn on the obverse, were used in Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries. In the same realm, carved unicorns were often used as finials on the pillars of Mercat crosses, and denoted that the settlement was a royal burgh.
A belief in the reality of unicorns goes back some 2,000 years, and it was especially strong in the mid-18th century, due to the sketching of what reportedly was a unicorn skeleton by the great philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
While European unicorn traditions might be the most familiar to Western audiences, unicorn-like creatures appear in mythologies worldwide, each with distinct characteristics and cultural significance.
The unicorn, a mythical creature popularized in European folklore, has captivated the human imagination for over 2,000 years. For most of that time, well into...
'The unicorn is a beautiful beast found throughout the forests of northern Europe. It is a pure white, horned horse when fully grown, though the foals are initially golden and turn silver before...
Though the qilin (麒麟, Chinese), a creature in Chinese mythology, is sometimes called "the Chinese unicorn," it is a hybrid animal that looks less unicorn than chimera, with the body of a deer, the head of a lion, green scales, and a long forwardly-curved horn.