The drangue (definite drangùa, drangoni) is a semi-human winged divine hero of Albanian folk belief, the most widespread Albanian culture-hero. Babies destined to become drangue are born wrapped in a caul and bearing two, sometimes four, wings under their arms, and their supernatural strength is held to reside in their wings and arms. The drangue is the archetype of light and good, the protector of mankind who fights and defeats the serpent-dragon kulshedra with thunderbolts, lightning-stones and uprooted trees; their battles are imagined as the great thunderstorms of the highlands. The dragon-slaying sense of the word is already documented in Frang Bardhi's Dictionarium Latino-Epiroticum of 1635.