unicorn Print

Why does a unicorn need its Horn? While playing the computer game Heroes III of might and magic (for several years), I thought that a unicorn needed a horn to attack, kind of like a bull. The horse is so beautiful and graceful, fast and elusive, and with a horn it is also unapproachable. Well, just the qualities of an ideal woman. But it turns out that healing properties are attributed to the unicorn's horn. A magic potion, so to speak. Of course, various swindlers profited from this legend, selling supposedly miraculous horns to pharmacies from approximately the 13th century until the 18th century. And the supposed horns of unicorns served as material for the manufacture of scepters and other attributes of power, such as the “unicorn throne” of the Danish kings, the scepter and imperial crown of the Austrian Empire and the scabbard and hilt of the sword of Charles the Bold.