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What is the difference between the Egyptian and Greek Sphinx?
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Egyptian sphinx - head of king, body of lion. Greek sphnix - head of female on lion's body; sometimes had wings. Both ask victims riddles they can't answer.
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What is a Manticore?
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MIddle Eastern cousin of the sphinx. Head of a person, body of lion, tail shoots arrows, 3 rows of teeth; also asks questions.
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What is the Basilisk?
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King of Snakes with wings. One look brings instant death.
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What is fact and what is fallacy about of the Mandrake?
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Mandrake root does exist, but legend is that it screams horribly.
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What is the apple of Sodom and the zieba?
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Apple of sodom - turns to ashes in your hand. Zieba is a tree with shingle bark that is full of ppl.
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When was the first mention of the unicorn?
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Ctesias, Greek Historian 398 BC - one year after Socrates executed. Plato was a young man. Ctesias wrote that the unicorn lived in India.
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Describe the unicorn.
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Aloof from human affairs; beautiful; as large or larger than a horse; horn 1/2 meter long; filings of horn poison antidote. Model = Rhino.
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What would a cup made from the horn of a unicorn cure?
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Epilepsy.
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Who were the 70?
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The 70 were a group of scholars that wanted to translate the books of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek.
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How did the word unicorn appear in the Bible in 1610?
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It came from the Hebrew 're'em', which dissapeared from Hebrew. It referred to an animal. They chose monokeros (one horn) Close to Syrian "rimu" meaning auroch/wild ox?
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How did the unicorn legend carry on? Explain the Unicorn in Arabic, Jewish and Christian myths.
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Ancient authorities (Pliny the Elder) promoted it. In Arab mythology it was HUGE (pierces elephants), Jewish it rested horn on the ark, Christian it was pacified by virgin.
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