Winged Unicorn/Cerapter/Pegacorn

[The Perilous Dreamer]

A winged Unicorn is a cross between a Pegasus and a Unicorn. A flying Unicorn. Alicorn historically means the horn of the Unicorn. Piers Anthony used the term “alicorn” in his book “Bearing an hourglass” (part of his “Incarnations of Immortality” series). The book was released in 1984. Later a popular kids show also used the term for winged unicorns themselves, both a non-historical usage.

Winged Unicorn

Winged unicorns themselves have been shown in literature for many thousands of years, the ancient Assyrian seals depicting them alongside winged bulls. The Alicorns allegedly representing the forces of good with the winged bulls representing the forces of evil.

The horn is said to possess magical healing qualities and the beast itself is written about with considerably magical abilities, although little can really be found describing what in fact these magical qualities are – leaving it largely up to an authors imagination to come up with stories to make up.

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Winged unicorn

A winged unicorn (or flying unicorn or unisus) is a fictional ungulate, typically portrayed as a horse, with wings like Pegasus and the horn of a unicorn. In some literature and media, it has been referred to as an alicorn, a Latin word for the horn of a unicorn, especially in alchemical texts,[1] or as a pegacorn, a portmanteau of pegasus and unicorn. It should be noted, however, that the term Pegasus is actually the name of the winged horse character of Greek mythology, a child of the god Poseidon, and does not refer to all winged horses; the correct term for them is pterripus.