Billyand the Wild Forest

Real or imaginary?

Discover Pegasus

Mythical creature — not a real animal

Luma is a pegasus — a magical creature from old stories, not an animal you can find in the wild.

Meet Luma the Pegasus

Luma the Pegasus — detail from the original book artwork

Luma the Pegasus

The real animal behind the story

Two real chestnut horses resting in a green field — the real animal a pegasus is imagined from
Real horses. A pegasus is a horse from a story — with wings added by imagination.Photo: Eric Kilby · CC BY-SA 2.0

A pegasus is a winged horse from very old stories told long ago in Greece. People imagined a horse that could fly. Pegasus is a myth, which means it is a story that people have told and retold — you will never find one in a field or a forest, because a pegasus is imaginary. The real animal behind the idea is the horse.

Look closer

Look carefully at the real horses in the photo. Where would wings have to grow? What else would a horse need to be able to fly?

Story passport

  • Real or imaginary?

    Imaginary — a creature from myths and stories

  • Where the story comes from

    Very old stories from ancient Greece

Did you know?

Myths are old stories people passed on out loud before they were written down.

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