Episode 21: Unicorns

Unspookable

Nate DuFort

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

When you think of a Unicorn, what words come to mind? Beautiful? Gentle? Majestic? What if we told you that our current perception was a recent phenomenon and that history may tell a very different tale of this amazing creature. On this episode of Unspookable we track over 2000 years of Unicorn lore to get to the bottom of its origins. Host: Elise Parisian Written by: Ellenor Riley-Condit Created, Produced, Edited by: Nate DuFort Music Direction and Composition: Jesse Case: https://www.jessecasemusic.com/ Logo by: Natalie Khuen http://nataliek.myportfolio.com Episode Artwork: Brianna Jacobi: briannajacobi.com & https://www.instagram.com/briannakj_art You can find Unspookable on Twitter and Instagram at:https://twitter.com/ImUnspookablehttps://www.instagram.com/unspookablepodcast/ Unspookable is part of the Soundsington Audio Network committed to making quality programing for young audiences and the young at heart. To find out more go to http://www.soundsingtonmedia.com

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0:00.0	I have powered it with a truth spell.
0:04.0	There it was a fully open lotus flower.
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0:12.0	This is the subterranean realm of the universe.
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0:35.0	Media! But the most fell and furious beast of all other is the Likorn or Monococeros. His body resembles a horse, his head a stag, his feet an elephant, his
0:48.8	tail a boar. He loath after an hideous manner, one black horn he hath in the midst of his forehead, bearing
0:57.1	out two cubits in length. By report, this wild beast cannot possibly be caught alive.
1:03.6	If you didn't already know the title of this episode,
1:07.3	what creature would you think these words describe?
1:10.3	A creature that is furious, makes a hideous lowing sound, and has a black horn.
1:17.0	Does this sound like a unicorn to you?
1:20.0	Because that is exactly what the Roman writer Pliny the Elder is describing in this passage from natural history, written in the year 77.
1:29.0	Sure he called it a lichorn, or a monoceros, but he was trying to paint a picture of the same creature that today you or I might describe as graceful or majestic or gentle or beautiful.
1:43.0	So how did we go from Fell and Furious almost 2,000 years ago
1:47.0	to the image of the unicorn that we have in our stories today?
1:51.0	I'm Elise Perision, and we'll be exploring all of that and more on today's episode of Unspookeable. A unicorn is a mythical and magical creature.
2:20.0	A unicorn is kind of just a horse that has a magical horn in between its ears.
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