#potion components

I've made this so much hard for myself and am dreading the last one.

ah the humble horn. made of keratin (or bone in the case of antlers), horns are typically found on ungulate creatures such as cows, sheep, antelope, deer and unicorn. they can have quite impressive shapes sometimes, such as in the curling spirals of markhor goats or the temperature-regulating satellite dishes of watusi cattle

in cows and deer, the loss of horn isn't typically too much of an issue, being naturally shed by the latter every year and in the former capable of trimming as one would a fingernail. We don't typically use them much nowadays outside of hobbyist artworks, but at one point in history they were vital

Did you know that before baking soda became popular, bakers used a material called hartshorn, which was made by the drying and distillation of red deer antlers?

there's also the famous viking drinking horns, and the traditional Jewish shofar, still used in ceremonies to this day

before we had widespread usage of plastic and glass, hollow cow's horns would be cut into sections, unrolled and polished to a level of transparency/translucency that made them useful as window panes or for children's hornbooks used to teach reading

And of course, I couldn't make a list of horns without mentioning those of the unicorn and dragon, used for ages in all manner of magic and medicine

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