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The unicorn is a legendary animal that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead

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Movie about a unicorn going to find her parents, who were turned into ice by a wizard

In 2013, my sister and I watched a movie on Netflix about a unicorn with the name Lucky or Lucy. It was a white unicorn with pinkish hair. The plot involved a bunch of creatures, one being a pig, ...
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Is there something named "Tales of the Dark Forest" from before 2009, that involves unicorns?

A quick search inside Archive.org's copies of Steve Barlow's book series of the name, doesn't have any mention of "Unicorn" across any of the four books. Knyghtmare Goodknyght Trollogy ...
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Looking for book I read in the '80s about a hart/unicorn

I thought I remembered reading a book in the '80s called The Last Hart. If I recall correctly, the story took place in modern times and was from the perspective of human young adults, not the hart/...
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Movie with a girl and her unipeg (winged unicorn) spirit animal

Wife been bugging me to ask someone about and I have never heard of it. She's talking about some animated movie with a unipeg (or winged unicorn) that grew up in a Pegasus group or family and is kind ...
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Can you drink unicorn blood from a living unicorn and benefit without being cursed?

We know from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone that if you kill a unicorn to drink its blood, the blood carries a terrible curse: "Only one who has nothing to lose, and everything to gain, ...
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Name of book with wild, dangerous unicorn

I am looking for the title or author of a book I remember reading as a child in '70s or '80s. I don't remember much about the plot. Most of the book played in our world, but there was a door or ...
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Romance book about a shapeshifting unicorn and a shapeshifting dragon

I remember reading a book where fantasy creatures were very common and most could shapehift to a human form and to some other form, though they were in human form most of the time. The protagonist is ...
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SFF Short story anthology: girl named Willow restores planets, and unicorns create balance in the environment

Looking for the title of a short story and the anthology it appeared in. The one story it contained had a girl named Willow(?) on a generation ship and she was training to be a restorer (someone who ...
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Have there ever been a work of fiction in which a Unicorn is portrayed as Evil/bad etc.? [closed]

Unicorns are typically treated as pure, virtuous and innocent creatures... So, are there any instances of a Unicorn behaving in a manner that is the complete opposite of that expected of it? I.e, if ...
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What book has a farm girl harvesting the power of unicorns?

I read a book in seventh grade, that I think was released in 2005. The main character is a girl who lived on her family farm, and she could see this ghost boy. One day this tunic-wearing man comes in ...
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Unicorn Book, possibly a series

There was a book in remember reading when I was younger (in the 90s) about a horse that turns into a unicorn. I think it could have possibly been a series. There is also a little girl that I think ...
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Why do unicorn prefer a woman's touch to a man's?

In Goblet of Fire, Professor Grubbly-Plank indicates that unicorns prefer a woman's touch to a man's: “Boys keep back!” barked Professor Grubbly-Plank, throwing out an arm and catching Harry hard ...
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Cartoon with a young unicorn and a demon

In the late 80s or early 90s I remember watching an animated series that followed a young unicorn and a demon. In one episode the unicorn gave the demon his horn, and the unicorn almost died. In ...
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A Blessing of Unicorns?

According to Penny Arcade, A group of Unicorns is called "A Blessing Of Unicorns" Where was that stated? Why was it really called a blessing? ..was Gabe spot on?
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Is it possible to suffer from frostbite and sunburn simultaneously? [closed]

In the most recent episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Rarity makes the amusing claim that she has given the townsfolk both frostbite and sunburn both in rapid succession, due to her poor ...
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Are all Alicorns Royal?

All the Princess' in the My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic series have both wings and a horn. Is this a trend, or a coincidence? I suppose I want to know, which one implies the other? Are they royal ...
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What sort of curse does unicorn's blood give?

With regards to drinking unicorns blood, according to Firenze: you will have but a half-life, a cursed life, from the moment the blood touches your lips How is this curse played out? Is it the ...
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