Unicorns

Cynical me thinks that the popularity of unicorns was a commercial decision.

Nobody has copyright on the use of unicorns (unless you are copying someone else's exact work), so manufacturers can plaster them all over t-shirts etc. without having to pay royalties to Disney, Pixar, JK Rowling et al. More profitable.

J44, on the whole, I think I agree with your thought. However mine was more in admiration than cynicism on the grounds that 'you can take a horse to the water' etc so, in the end, a massive calculated gamble or knowing your consumers amazingly well?

My DIL is a teacher of 6 year old little girls. She was recently in trouble with the mother of one when she told her class unicorns were not real. She knows to be very careful about Father Christmas and the tooth fairy but unicorns?

As a tarot reader, the Unicorn is one of my favourite decks - full of enchanting mythological beasts!

Remember the dinosaur craze? Never worked out where it came from or why they were so fascinating.

The Unicorn song was recorded by The Bachelors. Lovely.

I can understand a fascination with creatures that were huge, fierce, and actually existed..
Even Narwhals (however you spell it)

Half of GD's T shirts and jumpers have unicorns on and also her note books, pencil cases and little keyring type soft toys.
Llamas abound everywhere, elder GD has them on her tops.
Anyone can have a cat, dog or pony so the exotic is just a bit more … well exotic I suppose.

My DGD had a unicorn themed 5th birthday party. It's just the in-thing at the moment.

I'm wondering if it is a sign of the more thoughtful time that we are supposedly living in post '#me too' as well as being a backlash against toys like Bratz dolls.

Traditionally in legends only virgins were able to touch, tame and play with unicorns and we keep being told we should be nurturing different attitudes within society's children now, with self respect and self awareness being encouraged in both genders.

If that's the case, I'd rather my granddaughters played with unicorns than dolls dressed like hookers!

‘The meaning of The Unicorn is all about Opening up to Infinite Possibilities and that infinite possibilities surround you and are available to you at all times. Many times one cannot see that possibilities abound, or even exist. Unicorn gives us the "eyes to see" those possibilities, and "the wisdom" to take advantage of them.’

For young children and imparticular girls it seems it’s about believing in themselves, their self worth and developing resilience. I’m sure there’s times when we could all use a bit of ‘unicorn dust’.

Well said Molli - be a Unicorn, why not?

Or a llama, which seems to be the next 'thing'.

Or an Alpaca - fabulous creatures and just a bit less mythical. One of our local farms offers Llama walks as part of the planned birthday parties there

A horse with a unique horn!

It’s unicorns now. It’ll be some other sort of animal/creature next. It’s fashion...trend...a quirk. These things don’t have to have an origin. Common sense surely.

It’s official. DGD, 7, told me today she is over unicorns. She was already dressed in unicorn knickers, socks, leggings, though had a sequin penguin jumper. I asked her what she did like now. She wasn’t sure but tentatively mentioned cats.

Soon the charity shops will be full of all things unicorn related.
Fads come and go, our young DGD told us that she ‘wanted either a unicorn or a hamster’......guess which one she will get?

Unicorns are not new, my eldest DGD is 16 and her 2 year old cousin is currently playing with the fairy castle and Unicorns I bought 14 years ago. The appeal seems to be the link to ponies with DGD. We now have an impressive collection of Unicorns to which I added by buying a handmade craft one at a Christmas Fair this weekend, it is so pretty I could not resist!

unicorns and even fairies have been popular for a long time
the irish rovers unicorn song was recorded in 1967
one of the first tattoos i ever inked was a pink and purple unicorn with a fairy on its back,done on a large man by request of his 7 yr old daughter.1979

i have a 40 yr old pegasus flying across my back.
pink flamingos have always been loved in florida.there was even a hotel that took care of a flock of them.i don't know if they stilll do.

during the last big storm these 2 hung out down in the keys

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