I wanted to start this topic because Unicorns are something I would LOVE to beleive are or were real. Any input would be awesome, thanks a bunch you guys...........by the way, pleeeaaassseee dont laugh.....I'm just a curious soul

Excellent subject mandy . I promise I won't laugh. Unicorns are great and I believe they did and still do exist although maybe not in the form you might think.

Do you have any suggestions to what form they may be in?

The Bible mentions Unicorns - I believe they are real/were PS I really lke them too!

Unicorns

yup ... they are real ...
But as I have read some where ... that they are used by Gods ... and they usually live in Forests ... they are very powerful and some of them are good and some are bad ...
I have also heard that in the Philines there is every thing about this stuff ... like vampiers, Unicorns, and even Mermaids ... ...
if you want you can go there and explore ...

cooooool you guys are awesome!

i think i have read about early horses wtch had a small horn.

I was talking to a very reliable friend the other day , who breeds horse . We wern't discussing Unicorns at the time but she did happen to mention that occasionally Thoroughbred horses are born with small horns like those found on a calf . Just my 2 cents

Cool, so it is like a recessive trait that sometimes pops up to say hello. Maybe in the past more of the population was expressing this gene....food for thought

It certainly would explain why there are unicorns in the mythology and legends of different cultures.

i wish i was a unicorn

Unicorns are cool

You're so right Homey!

But not as cool as you KC

I would say KC is HOT

Ooohhh, TO, I'm feeling very hot now!!
Thank you for the sweet compliment.

And Homey, you always make me feel good.
(I'd like to return the favor)

Unicorns are just myth. There have been horses born with a small (very small) horn like appendage on their heads, though very rare and almost unheard of these days. Saddly, they didn't have mystical powers, and the ones born with this centuries ago, were often killed because they were considered freaks of nature, and in some cultures 'bad'.

The myths are pretty cool. I would have to say that anything someone believe's in, is 'real' to them. It may not be something that is tangible, but in their own mind, it is real. So, in a way, they are real, if you 'really' believe they are.

Reese

I know for a fact that unicorns had 1 horn, and when they moved their heads their horn would wobble like a cheaply fastened prop. I know this because you can see it happen in the movie "Legend".

That is too funny!


Reese

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I know for a fact that unicorns had 1 horn, and when they moved their heads their horn would wobble like a cheaply fastened prop. I know this because you can see it happen in the movie "Legend".

WHAT THE.......Legend did an awesome job with everything they did in that movie! Do you know how hard it would be to stabalize a horn on an animal as active as a horse! Poopy on you guys! Thats one of my favorite movies!

well, i never saw the entire movie. It was on TV a while ago and all I saw was a giant wobbly unicorn horn. That, and "goblins" that looked like reject extras from an episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Sorry about that.

I like the film too, but personally, I thought that it was too short.

I thought it was cool. When it comes on I can't take my eyes away its so pretty. They did a good job.

Legend was cool And I thought the creatures were great!Specially Tim Curry who played the Devil

Unicorns are lovely But DRAGONS are better!!!

QUOTE (SpaceyKC @ Jun 24 2003, 07:23 AM)

And Homey,  you always make me feel good.          (I'd like to return the favor)

I would love for you to return the favor, KC. Do you have something in mind

QUOTE (neenron @ Jun 24 2003, 09:43 PM)

Unicorns are lovely But DRAGONS are better!!!

Neen, I think you like dragons because of their ability to set you on fire

Homer Naughty boy

I actually collect Dragons,I think there the most beautiful mythical creatures ever

i have always loved unicorns, mostly for what they represent rather than the beleif that they really existed, however some of the previous post got me thinking. i have read all myths are based on reality, its just the stories got wilder each time it was told, so the truth got distorted and hid. well, perhaps in ancient times there were more of these "freaks" (i use term loosly) of nature, and when they mated, their offspring had the same oddity. the human race has a history of destroying what can not be controlled or what is feared, and if these creatures were thought to have powers they were hunted to exticntion. 'cept for the rare oddity that is born today. also, if two mated that had the same oddity, and it kept on , and kept on, isnt it possible that the so called horn could have become more pronounced? just a thought

I agree with you angel_psychic, I dont care whether or not they actually did exist, I just want to think that there are or were such beautiful, perfect creatures that walked this world.......it makes me all warm and tingly inside....heheeh.

the bible mentions unicorns? really? where? also, it mentions lions living in the middle east, which has always baffled me..

anyway, yes. i think unicorns do/did exsist. i remember reading something on this there was a picture someone took of what was supposed to be a unicorn running through the woods. it was studied and deemed real, but.. i dunno.. people didn't wanna hear it.

Verging from unicorns into dragons... The Babylonians were well aquaninted with a creature called the 'Sirrush', which was obviously quite different from any other living creature. Even in the Bible, in the Apocrypha's 'Book of Bel and the Dragon', it is reported that, in the temple of Bel, the priests kept a 'great dragon or serpent, which they of Babylon worshipped'.

In (I'm looking up, here) the 40th chapter of Job, they talk of the 'behomoth', which seems to be a description of a real animal, and one not very far from a modern description of a dragon.

Bible aside, the curious fact remains that ancient cultures seemed to have all had some creature that could be referred to as a 'dragon', and yet all these cultures evolved more or less independently of each other.

I'm not saying there were dragons, much less am I saying the Bible should be read in any remotely literal sense (if read at all), but dismissing 'mythical' creatures out of hand is surely not what this thread is all about.

Aha- back to unicorns. If not dragons, why not unicorns. Natural history books tell me that sabre tooth tigers roamed the north-east of England (where I'm from), which seems absurd. Nevertheless, it is so. How many other absurd animals may have been so?

Just a thought.

I've heard that the legend of unicorns originated from ancient times when mariners would travel north for their fishing expeditions and run into groups of a small kind of whale called a narwhal.

These narwwhals are special in that they live in arctic regions and swim very close to the ice shores. Often the ice freezes around them and they are trapped in their pods until the ice remelts. These whales are somewhat rare and happen to have a tooth that can extend up to 6 feet staigh out from their mouth and looks suspiciously like a unicorn horn.

As the story goes, the mariners would bring the teeth back when they returned home and sell them as unicorn horns in the hopes that they would turn a profit. The horn was supposed to have magical and medicinal value to the villages and since few villagers ever went fishing, the fishermen were able to keep their secret of the unicorn horns.

Now, I dont know how accurate that is, but if you ever see a narwhal, the tooth does look remakably like a unicorn horn. http://www.narwhal-whales.com/ this website has a drawn whale, but there are places where you can see a picture of the real thing.

also, there is an antelope that lives only in the desert, cant for the life of me remember where. it is also surmised that the unicorn myth originated from them as well. anything is possible i suppose, but with so many species that have not been discovered, or became extinct long before this century i think it would be a shame to just assume because it is a myth it could not have been.

I'd say anything is possible, but alot of the old paintings had Unicorns portrayed with alot of goatlike qualities.........

looking back at the way dinosaurs evolved into the animals we know today, i would have to say that, yes there probably is a uni-horned mammal that is land bound, whether or not it looks the way it is so often depicted in literature is another matter.....but wouldn't it be lovely if they really did

Weezil try these scriptures:
Numbers 24:8
Job 39:10-11
Deuternomy 33:17
Psalms 22:21
Psalms 92:10
Job 39: 9-12
Isaiah 34:7

FYI There is ONE witch named in the Bible do you know who she is?

Does anyone remember when Barnum and Bailey circus had their "unicorn" I NEVER will forget it - I was like 7 or 8 and I was so excited!

i have always doubted unicorns exist. today at least. i have heard of no such sightings or experiences w/ unicorns. so i must express my doubt. no doubt there are those here who probably have seen one, if you know what i mean.

I believe unicorns existed, and maybe still do. The modernized "horse with a horn" image is not how unicorns were originally seen/described. I do not know when or how the 'horse with a horn' unicons came to be, but these are not what the real unicorns were described as.

The original unicorns are creatures that can very possibly exist. The unicorn is an animal with a horn. WHAT is so impossible about that?
We have many creatures on this planet with horns, so we already know that a creature with a horn is 100% possible. And the old descriptions of unicorns fit an animal that is very likely and possible to exist...

~Besides a horn it had "cloven hooves"- the animals in todays world that have horns also have these cloven (split in the middle) hooves. Goats, deer, antelope, bulls, etc.
~It had a "lion's tail". Now of course lion's have no relation to hoofed or horned creatures. But a similar tail like a lion's can be found on cloven-hooved & horned creatures such as bulls. The tail that is thin, and ending in a tuft of hair.
~Also described often is the "beard". Which a beard can also be found on many hoofed & horned creatures. Most obviously the goat.
~The ears are also described as large. Not small triangles like horse ears. But large like the ears of deer, goats, and other cloven-hooved & horned creatures.
~the body-type of the unicorns were also described as smaller and thin like that of a deer or goat rather than huge and muscular like a horse.

So all these features DO exist in animals that we are familiar with today. The only difference with unicorns is there is one horn instead of 2. So by saying a unicorn is an impossible animal, you may as well just say it is impossible that an animal can have only one horn.
The old unicorn sightings described features perfectly common in 'regular' animals except for only one horn.
Small thin body, cloven hooves, large ears, lion-type tail, beard, beard, and a horn.

Also remember that just because sightings aren't common, or there is no traces found of unicorns, this does not mean they never existed. Every day new species get discovered that there was no indication of ever existing. New species of dinosaur bones get uncovered that had never been undug before. So there is countless things that have yet to be discovered. And with unicorns there is already possible sightings, and the descriptions based on these sightings describe a creature than can very well exist.

Also we should forget about a real unicorn being a magical creature and think of it just as a normal wild animal like a deer or an antelope. Stories may have just added the whole magical thing because an animal so beautiful and rare can easily be transformed into a magical creature in stories.
A unicorn is not a 'magical horse with a horn'. It is a wild, deer or goat-like creature that has one horn instead of 2.

Ahh I think they surgically implanted it. I remember hearing about a year after its debut it died.

That's so sad.
Can you image doing something like that now?

I think it is possible they could have possibly been around at one time, but I have never really read up about them, so I don't know.
I bet there isn't any around today though.

well, I like unicorns, so regardless of whether or not they did actually exist, as long as theyre still in my little world than Im good.