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bonnaconnoun
A medieval mythical bovine creature with huge curved horns that emits burning dung.
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Bonnacon
The bonnacon (also called bonasus or bonacho) is a legendary creature described as a bull with inward-curving horns and a horse-like mane. Medieval bestiaries usually depict its fur as reddish-brown or black. Because its horns were useless for self-defense, the bonnacon was said to expel large amounts of caustic feces from its anus at its pursuers, burning them and thereby ensuring its escape.
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Bonnacon
The Bonnacon is a mythical animal from Asia. It has curled horns and when startled sprays acidic dung that burns on contact with skin "like a kind of fire". The legend may be based on a type of bison in reality. Some suggest that it had some resemblance to the European-Bison, which went extinct in 1919. A supposed representation of it appears on the Coat of Arms belonging to the Hollingshead Family, possibly alluding to a legendary confrontation between one of their ancestors and this beast. The animal was described by Pliny in his Naturalis Historia: "There are reports of a wild animal in Paionia called the bonasus, which has the mane of a horse, but in all other respects resembles a bull; its horns are curved back in such a manner as to be of no use for fighting, and it is said that because of this it saves itself by running away, meanwhile emitting a trail of dung that sometimes covers a distance of as much as three furlongs [604 m], contact with which scorches pursuers like a sort of fire." The Bonnacon is also mentioned in The Aberdeen Bestiary.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bonnacon in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bonnacon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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