Unicorn. (Cf. B15.7.2.) — Mythoi

Motif

Unicorn. (Cf. B15.7.2.)

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Mythical beasts and hybrids. · view the constellation · filed as B13

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 20 20.— THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR.
Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 10: The Book of Lambspring
Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 17: A Subtle Allegory Concerning the Secrets of Alchemy (Michael Maier)
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 12, Section CCCXLI
Literary Crystallization Moby-Dick; or, The Whale , 32

Filed across the traditions

Icel. *Boberg
Jewish Neuman
Chinese Ferguson 98.
general *Type 1640
general *BP I 164
general **Odell Shepard The Lore of the Unicorn (London, 1929)
general **Robert Brown Jr. The Unicorn, a Mythological Investigation (London, 1881)
general Howey Horse in Magic and Myth 232f.
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. s.v. "Einhorn"
general Bolte Reise der Söhne Giaffers 212

Within the index

Filed under Mythical beasts and hybrids.

Filed beside it

Dragon Basilisk. A mythical lizard or serpent whose hissing drives away all other serpents Other hybrid animals Animals with unusual limbs or members Devastating animals Hostile animals Behemoth: mythical gigantic animal Other mythical beasts

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Monster three-legged ass. Stands in the ocean. Has three feet, six eyes, nine mouths, two ears, one horn, a white body. Two eyes are in eye position, two on top of his head, two on his hump. He renders powerless by the sharpness of his eyes. He has three mouths in his head, three in his hump, and three in the inner parts of his flanks. Each mouth is the size of a cottage. (Cf. B13, B15.1, B15.2, B15.4.)

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