Your Hero's Quest

21. Unicorns: Did they Actually Exist?


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Unicorns have been in human consciousness for over 2000 years, but did they ACTUALLY once exist? Were hunts for them in deep forests real or myth? Did their horns, which sold at exorbitant amounts of money in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, actually possess magickal properties? Listen to find out as we go on a fascinating journey into the history of unicorns unlike ever before!


YouTube version: https://youtu.be/7Dg7uaboR4c


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Sources for video:-Roberts, Teresa Noelle. “The Unicorn: Creature of Love.” Mythlore, vol. 8, no. 4 (30), 1982, pp. 39–41. JSTOR-Schoenberger, Guido. “A Goblet of Unicorn Horn.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 9, no. 10, 1951, pp. 284–88. JSTORhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/unicornhttps://www.worldhistory.org/article/1629/the-unicorn-myth/https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/3/26/aristotle-on-ctesias-on-the-manticore-and-unicornhttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/566289/unicorn-horn-poisonhttps://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/search-for-the-unicornhttps://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2017/09/18/monoceros-conrad-gessners-discussion-unicorn-tells-us-natural-history-renaissance-europe/https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/the-little-known-tale-of-the-medieval-unicorn/

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Your Hero's QuestBy Carli Abbey