A disease affecting horses, characterized by tangled manes or matting of hair; an elf-lock or supernatural condition.
From 'hag' (supernatural being) + 'mane' (horse's hair), combining folklore belief in witches causing harm with visible symptoms, rooted in English and Germanic folk traditions.
Before germ theory, people attributed tangled horse manes to witches plaiting them at night—'hagmane' preserves a time when people blamed the supernatural for what we now recognize as dermatological conditions or parasites.
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