"De Natura Unicorni" is one of many stories Yolen has written about unicorns.
The nature of the unicorns varies greatly from one story to the next, with their sometimes being solitary creatures, sometimes herding creatures, and sometimes a mixture of solitary males and herding females.
In a story such as "The Healing Horn," the idea of unicorns is more important than their actual existence. In "The Healing Horn" two brothers and a sister (loosely based on her own children, Yolen says) discover a horn that has been made into a walking stick, along with an advertisement that says the horn will cure many diseases. As in.....
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