The Golden-Headed Fish

Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang was also a prolific author of works both fiction and non; he wrote his own fairy tales such as Prince Prigio and Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia, and wrote numerous historical texts.


This story is about a king of Egypt who became blind and he fell in such a deep sorrow that he came to his deathbed. One day a styranger came to Egypt who claimed hew could cure the king's blindness but to do so he needed to make a remedy from a golden-headed fish. The prince and his men went to the Great Sea and tried to do that. All was in vain but only when a nundred days passed the prince caught it...