Madlands gods

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Steve Jackson

But for all I know they described rhinos as horselike too. Early European ideas of taxonomy were imprecise. Leg at each corner? Can't milk it? Doesn't bark? Sounds like a horse to me.

"Fast runner" would probably lead to horse comparisons regardless.
And I believe that early unicorn myths/rumors were bulky murderous beasts rather than the docile horns with horns that the myths relatively quickly became.
Please correct me if I'm just repeating a different unicorn urban myth.