The Ebony Horse
- Date of account
- 1885 Burton translation; Arabian Nights tale
- Location
- Persia, Yemen, and other legendary courts in the tale
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Ebony Horse, included in nineteenth-century English Arabian Nights translations, follows a prince whose mechanical or magical horse carries him across immense distances and into perilous courtly situations. Its relevance lies in technologically framed passage between worlds, aerial travel, abduction, and the instability of geographic boundaries in wonder tales. The story should be compared with Persianate romance and Arabic manuscript traditions rather than treated as a report of an artefact. Details differ among editions, and Burton’s translation contains interpretive and stylistic additions.
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