The Magician's Horse

The Magician's Horse
The Magician's Horse
	The youth and the horse leave the Magician behind the thicket of thorns. Illustration by Henry Justice Ford for The Grey Fairy Book (1900).
Folk tale
Name	The Magician's Horse
Also known as	The Prince Who Worked as Satan's Servant and Saved the King from Hell
Aarne–Thompson grouping	ATU 314, "Goldener"
Region	Lithuania
Published in	Litauische Volkslieder und Märchen by August Leskien (1882); The Grey Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang;
Related	Little Johnny Sheep-Dung; The Gifts of the Magician.; The Black Colt; Donotknow; Kibaraka;

The Prince Who Worked as Satan's Servant and Saved the King from Hell (Lithuanian: Apė karaliūnaitį, kur pas šėtoną slūžyjo ir karalių išgelbėjo iš peklos; German: Von dem Prinzen der bei dem Satan in Diensten stand und den König aus der Hölle befreite) is a Lithuanian fairy tale collected by German linguists August Leskien and Karl Brugmann. Andrew Lang included it in The Grey Fairy Book under the title The Magician's Horse.

The story is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as ATU 314, "Goldener" (previously, "The Youth Transformed to a Horse"), in a cycle that begins with the protagonist working for the antagonist and escaping from him on a talking horse.