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[[caption-width:200:''Riding a Flying Carpet'', an 1880 painting by Viktor Vasnetsov.]]
A MagicCarpet or FlyingCarpet is a carpet that can rapidly transport passengers who sit on top of it, typically by flying through the air. It typically features a Persian carpet design. TheOtherWiki gives [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_carpet more details]] and some examples.

Compare SkySurfing, FlyingBroomstick, HoverBoard.
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[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]

* Baishana from ''KatekyoHitmanReborn'' rides around on one of these, since he is modeled after a stereotypical snake charmer.

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[[folder: Card Games ]]

* There's a ''[[MagicTheGathering Magic]]'' card named [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=2043 Flying Carpet]]. Early versions of it were destroyed if the creature it targets dies; this was later removed, but the card still sucks.

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* ''[[{{Asterix}} Asterix and the Magic Carpet]]'' features an Indian with a FlyingCarpet.
* A chapter of ''{{Sandman}}'' set in the legendary Baghdad of the 1001 Nights features a flying carpet. It's pretty shabby despite belonging to the king.
* The Arabian Knight, a CaptainEthnic in the MarvelUniverse, rides a flying carpet (as well as wielding a magical scimitar).

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[[folder: Film ]]

* Disney's ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' and its many spin-offs featured a [[AnimateInanimateObject sentient]], mute magic carpet as a character.
* ''Thief of Bagdad''
* There was a plan to put a "magic carpet" (that is JamesBond riding a carpet down some phone wires) in ''TheLivingDaylights'', but it was dropped.
* The fourth installment of ''{{Fantaghiro}}'' mentioned it when playing with the FlyingBroomstick trope: When Xellesia and the Black Queen realize that the latter can't transform into anything that flies, they seek an alternate means, and reject carpets because they only work well in [[ArabianNightsDays Arabian Nights Land]].

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[[folder: Folk Lore ]]

* The legendary Hebrew figure Solomon had a magic carpet that took him rapidly from place to place by using Solomon's command of the wind.
* In Russian folk tales, IvanTheFool is given a magic carpet by BabaYaga.

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* ''ArabianNights'' featured the magic carpet of Tangu or Prince Housain's carpet.
* MarkTwain's ''Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven'' uses magic carpets as [[TeleportersAndTransporters instantaneous teleporters]].
* JKRowling's companion book to ''HarryPotter'', ''QuidditchThroughTheAges'', claims that magic carpets are more popular than broomsticks among wizards in the Middle East and South Asia. Also, it mentions that it's illegal to import flying carpets into the United Kingdom.
** Prior to that, in ''HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Barty Crouch mentioned that his father owned a flying carpet back when it was legal.
* One features in DianaWynneJones's ''[[HowlsMovingCastle Castle in the Air]]''.
* Seems to me there was one in the novel ''Practical Demon Keeping'' but maybe it was a genie, or the demon.
* In the Soviet children's novel ''Old Man Hottabych'', which was based on and parodied several Middle Eastern folk tales, features, among other things, a FlyingCarpet.
* In TerryPratchett's ''{{Discworld}}'' the FlyingCarpet is a moderately common object in Klach.
* Family-sized flying carpets are advertised as an alternative to cars in the ''IncarnationsOfImmortality'' series.
* HarryTurtledove's ''The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump'' is set in a {{Magitek}} alternate universe where everybody drives carpets instead of cars. (Los Angeles still has a major air pollution problem, though, caused by stray fibres shed by thousands of carpets.)
* In ''LieutenantGullivarJonesHisVacation'' (a.k.a. ''Gulliver of Mars'') by Edwin Lester Arnold, a magic carpet carries Lieutenant Jones to Mars where he experiences a series of adventures similar to those later enjoyed by JohnCarterOfMars. Jones and his magic carpet also appeared in the first issue of the second volume of ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* In an episode of ''WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', Alex takes flying carpet lessons from Justin.
* Fitting with his Arabian theme (except for the train), Hikaru/[=MagiShine=] in ''MahouSentaiMagiranger'', and his American counterpart, Daggeron/Solaris Knight in ''PowerRangersMysticForce'', make use of a magic carpet for their transport.

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[[folder: Newspaper Comics ]]

* ''CalvinAndHobbes'' once took the hall rug for a joyride. Hobbes worried about hurting the resale value.
** My favorite part was when they flew it by Calvin's dad's office window.

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[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]

* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' has a carpet of flying.

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* Tailors can make them in ''WorldOfWarcraft'' and use them as flying mounts.
* The hero and his friends ride in on one in ''QuestForGlory II: Trial by Fire''.
* One of these is a vehicle in ''DragonQuestVI''.
* There was a game called ''Magic Carpet''and a sequel ''Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds'', which was pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* There are flying/magic carpets in the ''WarioLand 4'' level called Arabian Night.
* Don't forget that enemy in the beginning of level 1-2 in ''SuperMarioBros 2''. He was sitting on a FlyingCarpet, and you needed to kill him and steal his carpet, so that you could cross a huge BottomlessPit.
* ''StreetRacer'', a cart racing VideoGame, featured Hodja Nasreddin on a hybrid of a car with a FlyingCarpet.
* ''{{RuneScape}}'' has magic carpets as a form of transportation in the desert.
* You had to ride one in the final world of ''{{Sonic}} and the Secret Rings''.
* ''PrinceOfPersia 2: The Shadow and the Flame'' uses a magic carpet ride to get from level 5 to level 6.
* ''SuperMario 64'', "Rainbow Ride" stage.
* ''SuperSmashBros Melee'', Both the Pidgit's and Rainbow Ride's magic carpets from ''SuperMarioBros 2'' and ''SuperMario 64'' appeared in 2 stages.
* ''MarioParty 5'', The Magic Carpet is a vehicle in the minigame Random Ride.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* Panchito in ''TheThreeCaballeros'' has a flying sarape.
* ''BugsBunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales''. At one point Bugs tries to escape from a palace on a FlyingCarpet.
* BugsBunny cartoons:
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Lad-In_His_Lamp A-Lad-In His Lamp]] (1948) featured Mad Man Hassan's used magic carpet lot and a FlyingCarpet with an outboard motor.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom-Stick_Bunny Broom-Stick Bunny]] (1956) had a genie riding a FlyingCarpet.
* ''The SuperMarioBrosSuperShow'', was used frequently as a vehicle in the Mushroom World. One peculiar example featured a biplane with magic carpets for wings.

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