The Unicorn
The Unicorn
A BELIEF in the unicorn, like that in the dragon, appears to have obtained among both Eastern and Western authors, at a very early period…
The Unicorn: Indian
Aristotlet mentions two unicorn animals. "There are only a few [animals] that have a solid hoof and one horn, as the Indian ass and the…
The Unicorn: Sining
In an account of the travels of Johann Grueber, Jesuit (about 1661), contained in Astley's collection of voyages, we find :- "Sining* is a…
The Unicorn: Kordofan
Antoine d'Abbadie, a unicorn animal which he had received when at Melpes in Kordofan :— "I met, on the 17th of April 1848, a man who was in…
The Unicorn: Ki-Lin
Turning to the Chinese classics and books of antiquity, we find references, sometimes vague and mythical, sometimes exact, to several…
The Unicorn: Chw'en
Cheu Nau calls it Lin-che-chi and Man Chw'en says that the Lin is truthful, and reducible to rule.
The Unicorn: Chang
Kwoh also says that the Piao is identical with the Chang, and the Chang with the Kiun. This corresponds with what Wei Chao So had already…
The Unicorn: Japanese
FIG. 83 -THE KI-RIN. (From a Japanese Drawing in a Temple at Kioto.) identical with the Chang and of a black colour; and they confirm…
The Unicorn: History
Again, the same History says that in the succeeding year the kingdom of Malin sent as tribute a Ki-Lin similar to that from Bengal.
The Unicorn: Yuen
A synonym for it was the Chiai Tung. It states that, according to the Si Yang Y Shu, a one-horned spiritual lamb was born in the Ping Shen…
The Unicorn: Shan
The Shan Hai King describes an animal as existing among the plains of Mongolia, having the appearance of a horse, with a white body, black…
The Unicorn: Baharan
As an alternative, we may speculate on the unicorn being a generic name for several distinct species of (probably) now extinct animals…