Types of fictional horses

• Talking horses - Mr Ed being one and Xanthus, an immortal horse with the power of speech, is another
• Unicorns
• Cartazonon - an orange horse with a lionish mane and a single horn growing from its forehead
• Pegasii
• Immortal horses - ridden by various gods
• Horses as appearances of gods and goddesses
• Ceffyl-Dwr - a flying water horse related to fairies

• Hippogriff - it has the head and front legs of an eagle while the rest of its body is that of a horse
• Fire breathing horses - typically warhorses or horses related to the underworld
• Fire horses - are either made up of fire or can control fire
• Demon horses or mules
• Ichthyocentaur - has the upper body of a human, the forelegs of a horse or lion and the tail of a dolphin
• Seahorses - they are often linked to land bound horses in fiction and mythology despite the lack of relation.

• Kelpie - Celtic mythological water horses
• Noggle - a small grey Celtic horse with supernatural powers
• Human eating horses named Mares of Diomedes as well as the Karkadann, which is a carnivorous unicorn
• Odin's eight legged horse
• The Trojan Horse - horse shaped at least
• Nix - a shapeshifter that can appear as a human, horse, snake, fish or mermaid and who is either gentle and sexy or a murderous temptress
• Centaurs or Sileni - horse from the shoulders/waist down, human from the waist/shoulders up.

• Ipotanes - a being resembling a human with the ears, tail and legs of a horse
• Golden horses - gold hair and hooves: namely Miramis from Astrid Lindgren's Mio, my Mio
• Each Uisge - a water horse that feeds on human flesh
• The intelligent and cultured Houyhnhnms - a race of horses in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
• Mutant horses - the "great horses" affected by radiation fallout in John Wyndham's The Chrysalids
• Horses made of wind or storms - Riders on the Storm riders ride these horses
• Horses with winged hooves - related to pegasii
• Companions - human spirits reincarnated in the form of white horses in Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series. Reincarnation as a horse also happens to Oliver Hardy in Flying Deuces.

• Skeleton horses - related to demon horses as they belong to the world of the dead
• Concorde - technically a page banging coconuts in Monty Python and the Holy Grail but why not add him here
• Unipeg - a winged horse with a single spiral horn growing from its forehead. Combine the names unicorn and pegasus and you get unipeg.
• Phooka - a pitch black horse with glowing red eyes. It can also take on the shape of a dog or giant bird.
• Hippocampus - it has an upper body that resembles a horse and a dolphin-like lower body