The Wonderful Sea-Horse

The Wonderful Sea-Horse
The Wonderful Sea-Horse
Folk tale
Name	The Wonderful Sea-Horse
Aarne–Thompson grouping	ATU 314, "Goldener"
Region	Iran
Published in	The Wonderful Sea-horse: And Other Persian Tales by Laurence Paul Elwell-Sutton (1950)
Related	The Black Colt; The Horse of the Cloud and the Wind; The Magician's Horse; Little Johnny Sheep-Dung; The Gifts of the Magician; Făt-Frumos with the Golden Hair; Donotknow; The Story of the Prince and His Horse; The Tale of Clever Hasan and the Talking Horse; Adventures of a Boy;

The Wonderful Sea-Horse is an Iranian folktale collected from storyteller Mashdi Galeen Khanom and published by Laurence Paul Elwell-Sutton. It is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as ATU 314, "Goldener". It deals with a friendship between a king's son and a magic horse that comes from the sea; both are later forced to flee for their lives due to the boy's own sisters, and reach another kingdom, where the boy adopts another identity.

Although it differs from variants wherein a hero acquires golden hair, its starting sequence (persecution by the hero's female relative, e.g., his sisters) is considered by scholarship as an alternate opening to the same tale type.