unycorn

unicorns were only ever tiny, but so strong and so fierce

trevisa described them in his epic translation of the encyclopedia - On the Particularity of Things

..and the unycorn is so stronge that he is not take with the myghte of hunters..

And so I know that the ony way to capture the unicorn is to pursuade a virgin to sit under a tree and the beast will approach her there and lay down his head upon her lap and go to sleep

it seems wrong that hunters should take advantage of such a creature, seduced by purity