Lately, I have been spending time researching and reading about the connection between people and horses but it’s not the only thing I have been reading about.
Although I know my characters in the ‘Daughters of the Wind’ series really well, I still search for ways to extend them. To be real in a readers mind they must grow, their knowledge must expand and they must constantly seek answers.
This week my reading has been about legends associated with the Arabian horse and I found one I particularly appreciated: “The Sixth Sense of the Arabian mare.”
I am not sure where I came across this particular legend as I printed it out some time ago. I found it with a pile of notes that I moved from the Book 2 folder across to the Book 3 folder? This is such a lovely legend – I really wanted to share…

The sixth sense of the Arabian mare

The wild mare of Arabia was the ultimate achievement of nature. According to the Bedouin she was a mature and perfect creature with the gift of an intelligent spirit. This gift was bestowed upon the mare of Ishmael along with an intuitive soul to dwell within her beautiful, strong, and symmetrical body. The psychic powers of her animal spirit were gifts of God, just as her conscious mind developed through her intimate human association.
The Arab’s believed that psychic power is never transmitted through stallions, though they posses it as much as the mares. An Arabian sire communicates physical qualities and nervous energies, but never the elements of mind and soul, which are outside the domain of physical laws. The elements of mind and soul were a spiritual gift to the first mare – Ishmael’s mare – who, the Arab’s insist, was not only special, but a twofold creation of God. She was brought into existence with an image of herself in her womb: a son who was only to serve later as a means of helping to reproduce her semblance on this earth. A perfectly developed male was born in Ishmael’s tent in the morning of her creation in the desert. For this mystical reason, the mare is always considered supremely important among the Bedouins. A stallion can only take secondary place.