The Stallion Houssan (Sudanese folktale)
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Der Hengst Houssan (English: "The Stallion Houssan") is a Sudanese folktale from Kordofan, first collected in German by ethnologist Leo Frobenius and published in 1923.
It is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as ATU 314, "Goldener". 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.