The Little Crab (Modern Greek: Τό καβράκι, romanized: To kavráki, German: Der kleine Krebs) is a Modern Greek folktale translated and published by Greek folklorist Georgios A. Megas from a source in Siteia, in 1938.[1]
The tale is related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband, in that a heroine marries a supernatural husband in animal shape, loses him, and has to seek him out. It is also classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type 425B, "Son of the Witch", thus distantly related to the Graeco-Roman myth of Cupid and Psyche.