Re: Do unicorns get worms?
dlowan wrote:
Are their horns deciduous, or permanent?
I cannot answer the first questions. This one, I do.
As you know, unicorns live on the remote limits of Ethiopia. They are very shy. The moment they are spotted by a human being, they flee, leaving their horn on the ground.
Unicorn horns flourish on the ground. The flower of the horn of the unicorn is a very powerful, yet poisonous, food.
If you damp the flower of the unicorn into milk, and bite it, you become a statue, reversing the Pigmaleon myth.
According to a story, Juan Emar, a Chilean author, travelled to the remote limits of Ethiopia, saw a few unicorns and made himself clearly visible to the shy creatures, collected several unicorn flowers and travelled to Mexico. He visited an alchemist friend -an old Cuban-, for Emar wanted to create the reverse spell, and make the statue of Diana the Huntress a live woman. But the Cuban had other thoughts in mind.
The Cuban, Desiderio Longotoma, contacted a friend of a friend of mine, a cinema student, and they decided to use the flower the old-fashioned way, and convert young women into statues, for pleasure and money (oddly enough, the old lady who modelled for the original statue of Diana the Huntress was a neighbor of this cinema student).
I won't tell you the end of the story, for it is quite tragic, but I will, somehow. Emar murdered Longotoma and was last seen in a bycicle, carrying a statue of a young girl. He had become totally mad. My friend survived and made money with the snuff films made by the cinema student.
That's the synopsis of a long short-story I wrote during the seventies.
My conclussive answer to your query: the horns are deciduous.
