Unicorns.
Four legged horses with a signature horn, popular with millennials and the inspiration
behind a blended ice drink that set Instagram on fire in 2017.
Unicorns…a much adored myth…but what if they actually existed?
Hello and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions, where we present to you just those…you
may just have not realised they were big questions yet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate – and today I am asking What if Unicorns were real?
Before we jump into this video, I just want to ask you to hit the thumbs up button if
you love unicorns…or…even if you don’t…because there is a reason fun rhymes thumb.
What are you saying Rebecca?
Honestly, I don’t know… just go with it.
Also, a special treat for you for clicking on this video, here is a picture of me, your
very on Life’s Biggest Questions Host, dressed as a Unicorn.
Unicorns go way back to Roman Literature in Pliny the Elder’s encyclopedia of natural
history, which was taken for fact for over 1 thousand 600 years.
In the text, Pliny Wrote that the unicorn is a fierce animal, impossible to capture
and has the body of a horse, head of a stag, feel of an elephant, the tail of a boar and
a single 3 ft long black horn.
Its cry was said to be a deep bellow.
The unicorn was also mentioned in the book the bible as a strong, fierce creature.
This is pretty far from the unicorn we have come to know in mythology these days, usually
presented as a white or colourful majestic horse with a golden horn!
Over time, in lore, Unicorns became a symbol of purity and grace.
It is fabled that they could only be caught by virgins and that their horn has the power
to clean water and cure sickness.
If unicorns were real, the outcome would depend on which of the fabled creatures we were going
to get.
The original depiction sounds pretty scary!
If we had one of these bull, elephant boar -horses, we may do well to run.
It is said that these creatures live in India, and I can only imagine some gunned up punks
would want to poach them and mount their heads on a wall.
Perhaps there would be some kind of nasty blood sport involving the creature; like a
bull run with a skewer.
Ack.
If it is the friendlier, more glamourized unicorn we have, then things would be a bit
different.
Someone would be rounding up the virgins in order for them to round up the unicorns…so….victory
for the virtuous…it would leave a lot of us out of the running.
Why would the virgins be rounding up the unicorns?
Well in a world where big business prevails and disease are rife, a lot of people would
be after those horns for healing purposes.
Unicorns would be farmed like cattle.
While they were alive, they would essentially be milked to purify water for third world
countries.
When they became tired, I imagine they would be killed for their horn, which would be ground
up and sold by big name pharmaceutical companies.
Rhinos and elephants are already illegally poached for their horns, imagine if they had
magical healing qualities?
It doesn’t look so good for our mate the unicorn.
There would likely be a lot of resistance from groups like PETA and various other animal
rights protectors who do not like the ethics and cruelty of farming these innocent creatures.
In the popular Harry Potter series, unicorns exist and drinking their silvery blood indeed
helps heal a sick person, keeps a person alive, but the person who consumes the unicorn blood
is doomed to live a half life, like Voldemort.
Perhaps if unicorns were real and we did use their horns as medicine and their blood was
some kind of everlasting life elixir, people would eat and drink from them, but be cursed.
There is something in the symbolic destruction of purity that surely would spell bad things
for the human race?
Would this be the final nail in our dastardly coffin?
Would we truly be the skeezy self serving nature leaches we have thus far proven ourselves
to be?
Big questions aside, starbucks would need to find a new mythical creature to base their
sickly sweet drinks marketing on.
If Unicorns were real…a drink named after one might be somewhat less attractive…Chicken
latte anyone?
No?
If unicorns are real, then were would it end?
Would the rich want to own one as a pet, take club pictures with one, or even ride them
around their big estates?
If unicorn are real, would this mean that pigs could fly and mermaids are legit?
So many questions.
Would the cult of the unicorn be over if they were real?
Isn’t the attraction of dressing up like a unicorn and plastering social media with
unicorn emojis the fact that they aren’t real…that they are mythical and magical?
What would happen to glitter…if unicorns were real…would we still do glitter….
Okay, the two aren’t exclusively related…but they kind of go hand in hand.
I am sure people would still like a unicorn in the way people have their favourite animals,
but you catch far less people dressing up as Ducks, for example, that beautiful, colourful
horned horses.
What if Unicorns were real, gallop gallop, lol lol…. but like, maybe this question
isn’t so ridic.
Maybe unicorns are real?
They are according to North Korea, anyway… and their layer is conveniently in Pyongyang,
the countries capital.
About 6 years ago, North Korean state media claimed that archaeologists from the Academy
of Social Sciences in North Korea’s History Insitute claimed they discovered the unicorn
layer 200 metres from a temple in the capital.
Apparently the unicorn hang out is behind a rectangular rock carved with the words unicorn
lair Must be true then!
The Korean Central News Agency said that this is proof Korean King Tongmyong, founder of
the kingdom, rode unicorns from 3 BC to 7 AD.
Cool.
Can we all ride unicorns?
But before we get too excited, let us remember North Korea also claimed Kim Jong Un’s dad
invented the hamburger and that the current dictator is a world wide fashion icon and
author of 1,500 books.
Cool.
We have had our fun here, but what do YOU think would happen if Unicorns were real?
Let me know in the comments section below.
Also, make sure you are always leaving a thumbs up…or hooves up, if any unicorns are watching
out there.
For now, I am going to gallop on our of her…I am your host Rebecca Felgate, I’lll catch
you in the next video but until then please do stay curious, stay fabulous and never ever
stop questioning!