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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Chapters: Chimera, Unicorn, Calydonian Boar, Phantom kangaroo, Cetus, Delphinus, Lepus, Erymanthian Boar, Camazotz, Hildisvíni, Babi, Kondole, Minawara and Multultu, Airavata, Baku, Seth animal, Jackalope, Selkie, Gef, Zhu Bajie, Moon rabbit, Mogollon Monster, Catoblepas, Yowie, Bat, Al-mi'raj, Headless Mule, Elwetritsch, Shisa, Crocotta, Werehyena, Wolpertinger, Pig, Mujina, Encantado, Mapinguari, Drop bear, Kuda-gitsune, Dolphins in mythology, Killer badger, World-elephant, Temple elephant, Gullinbursti, Hibagon, Sin-you, Hare, Giglioli's Whale, Ao Ao, Xiezhi, Bauk, Kushtaka, Á Bao A Qu, Omagimaakos, Ichneumon, Kamaitachi, Nuk-luk, Lavellan, Onocentaur, Monocerus, Bonnacon, Tibicena, Abath, Kishi, Allocamelus, Saumen Kar, Ramidreju, Arkan Sonney, Manatee of Helena, Dead Sea Apes, Satyrus, Jimmy Squarefoot, Muscaliet, Parandrus. Excerpt: The unicorn is a legendary animal commonly portrayed as a white horse with a goat's beard and a large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. First mentioned by the ancient Greeks, it became the most important imaginary animal of the middle ages and Renaissance when it was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could only be captured by a virgin. In the encyclopedias its horn was said to have the power to render poisoned water potable and to heal sickness. Until the 19th century, belief in unicorns was widespread among historians, alchemists, writers, poets, naturalists, physicians, and theologians. Gilt statue of a unicorn on the Council House, BristolUnicorns are not found in Greek mythology, but rather in accounts of natural history, for Greek writers of natural history were convinced of the reality of the unicorn, which they located in India, a distant and fabulous realm for them. The earliest description is from Ctesias who described them as wild asses, fleet of foot, having a horn a cubit and a half in length and colored white, red and black. Aristotle must be following Ctesias when he mentions two one-horned animals, the oryx (a kind of antelope) and the so-called "Indian ass". Strabo says that in the Caucasus there were one-horned horses with stag-like heads. Pliny the Elder mentions the oryx and an Indian ox (perhaps a rhinoceros) as one-horned beasts, as well as "a very fierce animal called the monoceros which has the head of the stag, the feet of the elephant, and the tail of the boar, while the rest of the body is like that of the horse; it makes a deep lowing noise, and has a single black horn, which projects from the middle of its forehead, two cubits in length." In On the Nature of Animals (¿e¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿d¿¿t¿t¿¿, De natura animalium), Aelian, quoting Ctesias, adds that India produces also a one-horned horse (iii. 41; iv. 52), and says (xvi. 20) that the monoceros (Greek: ) was someti