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Winged (medicine) and trickster tale (sh)


Winged (medicine)


winged


1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.

2. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime. "How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be followed for its own sake." (J. S. Harford)

3. Swift; rapid. "Bear this sealed brief with winged haste to the lord marshal."

4. Wounded or hurt in the wing.

5. <botany> Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.

6. Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.

7. Fanned with wings; swarming with birds. "The winged air darked with plumes."

Source: Websters Dictionary


trickster tale (sh)




In oral traditions worldwide, a story of deceit, Magic, and violence perpetrated by a mythical animal-human (trickster).

The trickster-hero is both creator god and innocent fool, evil destroyer and childlike prankster. Coyote, the trickster of tales from American Indian peoples in California and the Southwest, is one of the most widely known. In the Pacific Northwest, the trickster is Raven. Many African peoples also have tales about tricksters (hare, spider, tortoise, etc.), which slaves brought to the New World. Tales involving the trickster Brer Rabbit were given literary form by Joel Chandler Harris.