Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World is brought to you by the Star Quest Production Network and is made possible by our many generous patrons.

If you'd like to support the podcast, please visit sQP.com slash Give. You're listening to episode 316 of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world,

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about unicorns.

I'm Dom Betinelli, and joining me today is Jimmy Aiken.

Hey Jimmy.

How do Dom? Unicorns are commonly understood to be horses that have a single horn emerging from their forehead.

Today they are a prominent part of pop culture.

They appear in illustrations, many of them for children. They feature in books and

cartoons and appear as costumes. They are often associated with rainbows and other emblems of

cutness. Some even say that unicorns poop rainbows and they're associated

with the New Age movement and other social movements. But despite their

popularity today, unicorns have deep roots in the past, including a long association

with the Christian faith.

And modern ideas about unicorns are very different from those of the past.

So what are unicorns?

What did people believe about them?

And could there be actual real unicorns?

That's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Yakin's mysterious world.

Now, Jimmy, why did you want to start today's introductory segment with a discussion of how

Unicorns are understood today?

Well, because a lot of currently popular ideas about unicorns are extremely

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