According to folklore, Alexander the Great flew through the sky on a seat tied to two griffins he had tamed. To entice them to keep flying higher, he placed meat on two skewers which he held above their heads. Some say Alexander also rode a unicorn into battle.

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The French cosmographer André Thevet said that people on the Maluku Islands in Indonesia claimed to encounter the camphruch or "sea unicorn," a creature that lives on both land and water (like a crocodile) and feeds on fish. Its horn is as flexible as a rooster's comb.

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The vegetable lamb of Tartary is a plant-animal of European folklore said to inhabit the Middle East. The plant produces sheep as its fruit, which remain connected to it by an umbilical cord and so can only eat foliage that grows nearby. Likely inspired by the cotton plant.
🎨 Henry Lee

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The vegetable lamb is a plant-animal of European folklore said to inhabit the Middle East. The plant produces sheep as its fruit, which remain connected to it by an umbilical cord and so can only eat foliage that grows nearby. Likely inspired by the cotton plant.
🎨 Henry Lee

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