Unicorn

The Unicorn is a legendary creature discribed since antiquity. The earliest mention we have on record is from the Greek natural historian Ctesias who in his work "Indika" (On India); where in the Greeks believed the Unicorn to dwell, he discribed them as wild asses, fleet of foot, with a single horn of a cubit and a half in length colored white, red, and black. Such a creaure is featured on some Indian structures such as the Unicorn Seal of the Indus Valley (now on display at the Indian Museum). Latter Greek historians of antiquity expanded the Unicorn into a category of life possessing of a single horn and discribed various such beings. The middle ages saw the rise of the 'one horned stallion/mare' depiction that has become popular with magical properties being attributed to the horn from medical miracles to wish granting.