The Golden Crab is a Greek fairy tale collected as "Prinz Krebs" by Bernhard Schmidt in his Griechische Märchen, Sagen and Volkslieder. Andrew Lang included it in The Yellow Fairy Book. Greek folklorist collected a variant, The Crab, in Folktales of Greece. It is Aarne-Thompson type 425D, Vanished Husband learned of by keeping inn.