Ep 86 - Unicorns - Mythical Creatures, Rhinoceroses, and Death by Virgin

Coming back from hiatus, Rowan brings us stories of unicorns. Turns out: if it looks like a mythical creature, and has one horn like a mythical creature, it’s probably a rhinoceros.

Join us in examining one-horned, magical creatures from Ancient Greece, the Indus Valley, China, England, and beyond.

Sources

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_horn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_of_Seville

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Bestiary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qilin

Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/origins-of-unicorns

https://www.livescience.com/what-was-the-indus-valley-civilization

World History

​https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1629/the-unicorn-myth/

Thought Co

​​https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-qilin-195005

St Neots Museum

https://www.stneotsmuseum.org.uk/articles/unicorns-a-brief-history/

American Museum of Natural History

https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/mythic-creatures/land/unicorns-west-and-east

Wired

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/fantastically-wrong-unicorn/

NY Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/t-magazine/unicorns-culture-myth.html

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