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I read a book called Rampant by Diana Peterfreund. About a sect of virgin girls who slay man-eating unicorns. Being a mythos buff. I searched in to the subject after reading the book.

And ancient peoples of India, Asia, Europe, and Germanic tribes believed that original unicorns ate people especially non-virgin women. That the horns or alicorn was highly poisonous and lethal. Also that the unicorns savagely killed other animals. Even eachother. That's why unicorns were killed in the biblical flood.

That Alexander the Great's steed Baucephelus was actually a unicorn as big as an elephant that resembled a bull. That spoke to Alexander telepathically and came up with battle strategies and tactics. That without Baucephelus he wouldn't have conquered as much as he did.

Is it possible that the cute, cuddly, fluffy creatures of dreams, and fantasies; actually ferocious beasts?

If they were, why do we depict them as a means of innocence and child like wonder today?

Is it just a mythos like unicorns are supposedly are?

Could they have been like that out of defense and that's another reason why man hunted them? Or was it just in their nature like it always was?

Do you believe in the possibility that they could have been man eaters? Why or why not? Could they still be?

I have never heard of this before. All I have ever heard of unicorns is that they are pure. However like all things in life there are always another side of every story. I will defently have to look more into this.

Thanks for the info.

It's pure fiction. I doubt that any serious historian is claiming that Alexander's horse was a unicorn, since it is well documented that -- by all accounts -- it was just a large horse. It's name, Bucephalus, actually means "ox-head", but this was generally understood to be a sarcastic name -- no one really believes that this horse had the head of an ox.

And since I am unable to find any other literary mentions of "man-eating unicorns" other than this author's "work" I suspect that she is the only one who believes this.

Mr. Thoth said it all for me.
It's not really a legend if it's only been written by one person, a recent author at that, and one website of paranoid unicorn haters doesn't amount to "searching into" stuff. I too, couldn't find anything else on the subject, and I worded the phrase in several different ways.

Unicorns are a fairytale, and while it may be true of a lot of fairytales that they do have gruesome back stories, this doesn't work for unicorns. [And by other fairytales, I mean Hansel and Gretel, ect.]

...I am one of those, who need to see to believe. So, as right now, I don't believe in Unicorns. Not every legend can become a reality and Unicorn only exist in fiction books and movies with a unreal environment.

Is it possible? YES!!!..Of course...just as it has been found...quite literally that the descendant of T-Rex is none other than the modern-day chicken...o.O ...and regardless of what some may think...a chicken may be fed grain but it will eat it's own as well as anything else, meat or vegetable...they are the trash compactors of Southern Classic...@_@

Before this turns into a free for all mud throw, I am closing it. :)