Why Is Everyone Still So Obsessed With Unicorns?

.slaskow talks to mmaggeler about why the myth of horses with a horn on their head has persisted for so long and across so many cultures

Photo: Sergio Anelli/Electa/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images They’re on bags, T-shirts, key chains, pillows, humidifiers. They’re in frappuccinos, noodles, ice cream. We make movies about them, and TV shows, and toys. Children love them. Adults love them. Channing Tatum and Pete Davidson love them. Some of us even pretend to eat their excrement.

One of the things that stood out the most to me when reading it is how myths of this single-horned creature existed all around the world in all these different cultures. Totally. I think my favorite one is the Zoroastrian mythical one that had one horn but also six eyes and three feet and just the wrong number of everything. There was a funny detail that didn’t make it into the book, because it’s a book that’s meant for kids, but it was also supposed to have a very large number of testicles. I think, like, five? That one was a real triumph of imagination.

It is really wild that a unicorn isn’t real but a narwhal is. A horse with a horn makes way more sense than a whale with a horn.

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