A very old man with enormous wings

The very old man with enormous wings. Pelayo finds him lying in the mud of his courtyard. Caged in a chicken coop, people from all over the world come to see him. His one supernatural quality, aside from his wings, seems to be his patience, and he speaks in a dialect that no one understands. The old man is described in imagery of earthly poverty and human weakness, contradicting traditional heavenly stereotypes. Even the birds with which he is compared to are ignoble ones ("buzzard wings," "a huge decrepit hen," "a senile vulture"). Yet there is clearly something of the magical about him beyond his unexplained wings and mysterious origin.