Horned Beasts covers the Unicorn, a horse like creature identified chiefly by its single horn and, in medieval European legend, by a purity that only a virgin could approach. The category groups beasts defined primarily by a distinctive horn rather than by species.
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The horned beasts
This small group holds a horned beast, a mythical creature marked by its horns, a feature that in many traditions signals power, wildness or the sacred, as with the unicorn and other horned figures of legend.
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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
Giants, Monsters and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
Carol Rose, ABC-CLIO, 2000Horned mythical creatures across world folklore, including the unicornView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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