[1][3][7] Neela can be found in Sikh legends, forming part of the archetypal imagination of Guru Gobind Singh, seated on him.

[9][11] Sikh lore claims that when Guru Gobind Singh was riding Neela whilst returning from Anandgarh, it would not enter a tobacco field and reared up in front of it.

[6] Gurdwara Putthi Sahib was later constructed over the site and it is claimed that impressions of Neela's hoof marks are still preserved in the now solidified mud.

[18] In a work emulating one by the poet Pilu by Kishan Singh Arif, he includes Neela as one of the seven horses that are descended from Heaven, alongside the mare from the Mirza Sahiba folktale known as Bakki.

[19] In the aftermath of Operation Blue Star, many Sikhs refused to accept that Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale had been killed in the ensuing violence, believing that a blue-horse from Heaven had come down to take him away.