A winged unicorn is a fictional horse with wings like Pegasus and the horn of a unicorn. This creature has no specific name, but in some literature and media, it has been referred to as an alicorn, which is a historical, Latin word for the horn of a unicorn, especially in alchemical texts. They have also been referred to as pegacorns, unisus, unipegs, flying unicorn, hornisus, and as hornipegs.
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Description
Winged unicorns have been depicted in art. Ancient Achaemenid Assyrian seals bear depictions of winged unicorns and winged bulls as representations of evil. But sometimes, winged unicorns were representation of light element or sides with the light.
Irish poet W. B. Yeats wrote of imagining a winged beast that he associated with laughing, ecstatic destruction. The beast took the form of a winged unicorn in his 1907 play The Unicorn from the Stars and later that of the rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem in his poem "The Second Coming."
Popular culture
Tokimeki Tonight features them as part of a royal crest visible on a throne in the Underworld.
A character named Whisper appears in Whisper, the Winged Unicorn (sticker book, 1983), story by Karen Styles, and Whisper's Golden Friend (sticker book, 1986) by Jill Wolf
She-Ra, a spin-off of Mattel's Master of the Universe, features Swift Wind
Arthur features a winged "My Fluffy Unicorn" toy that D.W. names "Uni" is the focus of "Hic or Treat" when she considers giving it to the Tibbles.
In the continuity of Hasbro's My Little Pony franchise since 2010, winged unicorns, which are rare and powerful, play a role as ponies of royal status.
In Sofia the First episode "Baileywhoops", Cedric turns a merry-go-round of unicorns into winged ones.
In Little Charmers episode "A Charmazing Race", Hazel Charming's racing broom has a unicorn horn and wings.
Members of the "Falcon Knight" class in the Fire Emblem series ride winged unicorns.