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The Alicorn
$72
Dimensions:
cm: 10.62 w x 17.694 d x 14.71 h in: 4.181 w x 6.966 d x 5.791 h |
The Alicorn, also called a Pegacorn, or winged unicorn, is a horse with wings and the horn of a unicorn. Winged unicorns have made many appearances in art. Ancient Achaemenid Assyrian seals bear depictions of winged unicorns and winged bulls as representations of evil.
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. Unlike both Unicorns and Pegasus, there is very little lore involving Alicorns.
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. Unlike both Unicorns and Pegasus, there is very little lore involving Alicorns.