i've just found out whar an alicorn really is!

[Twilight Mist 54]

Contrary to FIM an alicorn is not a winged unicorn, but the horn of one after it has been killed. It dates from the middle ages when people thought that unicorns were real and they believed that drinking out of their horns would cure any poison. What they were actually getting was the horn of a narwhal, a type of whale!

[cuteycindyhoney 13,285]

Did you say Narwhal?

I just had to put this here!

[KarentheUnicorn 218]

Yes, the alicorn is actually the unicorn's horn, not a unicorn with wings.

 

Frankly, I like Winged Unicorn better than alicorn.

[~Silver Essence~ 2,622]

I have heard about this.

 

Contrary to belief, I believe lauren faust was intended on explaining this in a future episode during her run in season 1, but this is interesting none the less.

[ReverseFaller 2,483]

Did...Did you say Narwhales?

 

 

M-Must kill all the Narwhales.

(Sorry, the Narwhale thing is an old inside joke between me and somebody else.)

 

On a serious note, that's rather interesting. I never knew that. Thanks for informing me with the knowledge, because as we know knowledge is power, and knowing is half the battle.

 

[Bird Mom 900]

Wow, nice to know. I never would have guessed that.  Lol.

[TurtlesForSale 128]

Oh wow, now every time they mention a Alicorn in the show i'm going to think of a dead unicorns broken horn ...wow 

 

Another fun fact is that the word Pegasus which came from the name of Hercules' pet winged horse was...well just the name of it, technically they are only winged horses, Pegasus was just a name for one of them. 

[Scootalove 10,685]

Whatever you want to believe anyway, so yeah. Alicorns are probably just ponies that have one horn and two wings, that's how I see it.

 

In reality, they need to have a unicorn's horn and wings from a pegasus.

Edited February 14, 2014 by Scootalove

[Dilarus 165]

Not correct, an Alicorn means both a unicorn's horn and a winged unicorn. Originally it was just the horn but at some point in the eighteenth century it began to be used in reference to a winged unicorn.

[Page.Turner 940]

Did you say Narwhal?

I just had to put this here!

 

*screams for thirty-five years*

 

This is my jam <3