The Black Colt

The Black Colt
The Black Colt
Folk tale
Name	The Black Colt
Also known as	Korre-ye-Siyah
Aarne–Thompson grouping	ATU 314 (Goldener)
Region	Iran
Published in	Folk Tales of Ancient Persia by Forough Hekmat (1974)
Related	The Wonderful Sea-Horse; 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;

Black Colt (Persian: Korre-ye-Siyah) is an Iranian folktale published by author Forough Hekmat in 1974. 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 are forced to flee for their lives due to the boy's stepmother, 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 stepmother) is considered by scholarship as an alternate opening to the same tale type.