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He, the mystical creature
He, who vanished from the land
When there was too much hate
He left when we began to separate
He, who vanished from the land
When there was too much hate
He left when we began to separate
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Its mystery is its magic
like a rainbow
Something no one can hold
A sweet song
The legend that longs
To be told.
like a rainbow
Something no one can hold
A sweet song
The legend that longs
To be told.
In 1663, a great deal of excitement was generated by the discovery of a large unicorn skeleton in the Harz Mountains region of central Germany.
The skeleton was found among piles of other fossil bones in a limestone cave near Quedlinburg which is located a little north of the Harz mountains. Crowds of people soon flocked to the site to view this historic find. In the initial confusion over who owned the cave, many people simply helped themselves so souvenirs. Ather a fierce legal battle, the Abbess of Quedlinburg took charge. In spite of her supervision of the work at the site, the skeleton was badly damaged during the excavations emerging as a fragmented pile of bones. Scientific examination of the remains was undertaken by the famous scientist, Otto von Guericke.
Not too surprisingly, the skeleton that emerged from his reconstruction presents is lacked half its spine, and appeared to be completely devoid of hindquarters. Its most interesting feature, the skull, had miraculously survived intact, and firmly attached to it was a single, straight, tapering horn some seven feet in length. There were claims that the so-called "unicorn" skeleton was constructed from the fossil bones of mammoths and other animals; this was contradicted or explained by accounts of souvenir seekers plundering pieces of the skeleton.
