Unicorn
c. 400 BCE – 1700 CEattested
reported from India, believed in Europe
- European Folklore
Also from a Greek physician at the Persian court, describing an Indian animal. Europe kept it for two thousand years and sold narwhal tusks as proof.
Known for
- single horn
- purifies water
- caught only by the innocent
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.