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There are plenty of stories of unicorns, though. Why them and not some other animal?

• Apocryphon 5y ago
  There are plenty of stories of dragons, too.
  • theaussiestew 5y ago
    So why are there so many stories of dragons, even across cultures that had little to no contact whatsoever?
    • Apocryphon 5y ago
      There's a very interesting (but somewhat contrived) anthropological hypothesis that dragons are composites of various predator creatures that were a danger to our ancestors- birds of prey, great cats, and pythons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Instinct_for_Dragons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Instinct_for_Dragons