The crowned winged phallus animal
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 53). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Plausible
Date or witness: Badge c.1375–1424; matching manuscript image dated 1392
Region: Low Countries and France
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1375 CE to 1424 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
A phallus with wings, legs, crown and bell appears both as a wearable cast badge and as an illustration in a 1392 copy of Gregory IX's Decretals: unusually concrete evidence of the same strange design across media.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
The crowned winged creature crosses a badge and a dated manuscript; it belongs to a larger popular wearable repertoire.
What remains uncertain
The specific crowned-winged subtype has less documented distribution here than the entire sexual-badge family. Cheap medium and cross-media resemblance are strong indicators, but the exact chain of adoption and wearers are unknown.
Candidate-index family 27: Genital creatures and altered processions on secular badges
The workbook groups records 53–54 here and rates the family Plausible. This is a research shortlist, not proof of an independently established meme family.
Dated evidence: Selected badges c.1375–1450; linked manuscript example dated 1392
Region: Low Countries and France
Shortlist uncertainty: The broader inexpensive repertoire has stronger adoption evidence than each exact design. Do not count every subtype as a separately proven craze.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria