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The Ebony Horse
The Ebony Horse, The Enchanted Horse or The Magic Horse is a folk tale featured in the Arabian Nights. It features a flying mechanical horse, controlled using keys, that could fly into outer space and towards the Sun. The ebony horse can fly the distance of one year in a single day, and is used as a vehicle by the Prince of Persia, Qamar al-Aqmar, in his adventures across Persia, Arabia and Byzantium.
According to scholarship, the tale inspired literary stories about a flying mechanical horse in Europe. Variants from oral tradition have been collected mostly from Europe and Asia, but are also attested in Africa. Although the tale appears in the work One Thousand and One Nights, a similar story is attested earlier in the Indian Panchatantra, albeit with a flying bird-like mechanism in the shape of a Garuda.
According to researcher Ulrich Marzolph, the tale "The Ebony Horse" was part of the story repertoire of Hanna Diyab, a Christian Maronite who provided several tales to French writer Antoine Galland. As per Galland's diary, the tale was told on 13 May 1709.
An Indian craftsman and inventor of magical devices arrives in the Persian city of Shiraz at the time of the New Year celebration, mounted upon a splendid artificial horse – surprisingly life-like, despite its mechanical nature. The king is so impressed with this automaton that he decides to present his son, the prince, with the marvellous steed.
The young prince wastes no time in climbing into the saddle and the horse ascends swiftly into the sky. When prince decides that he has flown high enough he tries to make the horse land, but finds that he cannot. Far from landing, the horse instead flies off with the prince, spiriting him away to unknown lands. Later, he rides the flying mechanical horse to the kingdom of Bengal and meets a beautiful princess, who becomes enamoured of him.
The young prince retells his adventures to the princess, and they exchange first pleasantries and later sweet nothings as they fall ever more deeply in love. Soon, the Persian youth convinces the Bengali princess to ride the mechanical marvel with him to his homeland of Persia.
Meanwhile, the Indian artifex had been unjustly imprisoned due to the disastrous test flight of his creation. In his cell, he sees the prince arriving with his beloved maiden. Reunited with his beloved son, the King of Persia releases the craftsman, who seizes the opportunity for revenge, using the horse to abduct the princess and disappearing swiftly over the horizon with her.
They soon arrive in the kingdom of Cashmere. The king of that country rescues the princess from the Indian and resolves to marry her, without her consent. As soon as the princess recovers from her shock, she pretends to have gone mad in order to forestall her forced marriage.
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The Ebony Horse
The Ebony Horse, The Enchanted Horse or The Magic Horse is a folk tale featured in the Arabian Nights. It features a flying mechanical horse, controlled using keys, that could fly into outer space and towards the Sun. The ebony horse can fly the distance of one year in a single day, and is used as a vehicle by the Prince of Persia, Qamar al-Aqmar, in his adventures across Persia, Arabia and Byzantium.
According to scholarship, the tale inspired literary stories about a flying mechanical horse in Europe. Variants from oral tradition have been collected mostly from Europe and Asia, but are also attested in Africa. Although the tale appears in the work One Thousand and One Nights, a similar story is attested earlier in the Indian Panchatantra, albeit with a flying bird-like mechanism in the shape of a Garuda.
According to researcher Ulrich Marzolph, the tale "The Ebony Horse" was part of the story repertoire of Hanna Diyab, a Christian Maronite who provided several tales to French writer Antoine Galland. As per Galland's diary, the tale was told on 13 May 1709.
An Indian craftsman and inventor of magical devices arrives in the Persian city of Shiraz at the time of the New Year celebration, mounted upon a splendid artificial horse – surprisingly life-like, despite its mechanical nature. The king is so impressed with this automaton that he decides to present his son, the prince, with the marvellous steed.
The young prince wastes no time in climbing into the saddle and the horse ascends swiftly into the sky. When prince decides that he has flown high enough he tries to make the horse land, but finds that he cannot. Far from landing, the horse instead flies off with the prince, spiriting him away to unknown lands. Later, he rides the flying mechanical horse to the kingdom of Bengal and meets a beautiful princess, who becomes enamoured of him.
The young prince retells his adventures to the princess, and they exchange first pleasantries and later sweet nothings as they fall ever more deeply in love. Soon, the Persian youth convinces the Bengali princess to ride the mechanical marvel with him to his homeland of Persia.
Meanwhile, the Indian artifex had been unjustly imprisoned due to the disastrous test flight of his creation. In his cell, he sees the prince arriving with his beloved maiden. Reunited with his beloved son, the King of Persia releases the craftsman, who seizes the opportunity for revenge, using the horse to abduct the princess and disappearing swiftly over the horizon with her.
They soon arrive in the kingdom of Cashmere. The king of that country rescues the princess from the Indian and resolves to marry her, without her consent. As soon as the princess recovers from her shock, she pretends to have gone mad in order to forestall her forced marriage.
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