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Month: June 2016

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Martin Luther and the Unicorn Horn

30 Jun 2016October 4, 2018
Martin Luther, the leading figure of the Protestant Reformation, spent his last three days on earth working. He delivered a sermon that in part encouraged Jews to convert to Christianity…
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Alicorn

20 Jun 2016September 29, 2018
Sea Unicorns from The History of Barados, St. Christophers, Mevis, St Vincents, Antego, Martinico, Monserrat, and the rest of the Caribby-Islands (London, 1666). One of the first pieces of Anglo-American…
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The Unicorn in the Physiologus and Bestiaries

15 Jun 2016October 4, 2018
Medieval Christian scholars across Europe read the Physiologus making the book's circulation second only to that of the Bible.” The Physiologus was based on Indian, Hebrew, and Egyptian legends that later…
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Unicorns in the Bible

13 Jun 2016October 4, 2018
Numbers 23:22-23 from the Geneva Bible (1560) The unicorn existed in the ancient world as well as appeared in the unchallengeable Christian text, the Bible.  Various editions of the English…
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Ancient Authorities on the Unicorn

13 Jun 2016September 29, 2018
  Many early-modern Europeans believed in the existence of unicorns, in part, due to the writings of ancient authorities. Ctesias (ca. 400 BCE), the Greek physician who served the Persian…

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