Prince Crawfish (Belarusian folktale)
Belarusian folktale about an enchanted husband in crawfish form / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prince Crawfish (Belarusian: "Рак Царэвіч") is a Belarusian folktale collected by Belarusian ethnographer and folklorist Evdokim Romanov [ru]. Folklorist Lev Barag [ru] later republished it in German as Der Krebs als Zarensohn ("The Crab as Son-in-Law").
The tale is related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband: a human maiden marries an animal that is a prince in disguise, breaks a taboo and loses him, and she has to seek him out.