Winged unicorn

A winged unicorn (cerapter, flying unicorn, unisus, or unipeg) is a fictional ungulate, typically portrayed as a horse, with wings like a pegasus and the horn of a unicorn.

[1] In some literature and media, it has been referred to as an alicorn, a word derived from the Italian word alicorno,[2] or as a pegacorn, a portmanteau of pegasus and unicorn.

Ancient Achaemenid Assyrian seals depict winged unicorns and winged bulls as representing evil, but winged unicorns can also represent light.

[3][4] Irish poet W. B. Yeats wrote of imagining a winged beast that he associated with 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".

A winged unicorn on the Manège d'Andréa
Detail of the embroidered dress of an Apkallu , showing four-legged winged and horned animals. From Nimrud , Iraq. 883–859 BCE. Museum of the Ancient Orient , Istanbul