page_title: The Knights of the Fish
hierarchical_section_title: The Knights of the Fish
caption_attribution_description: Illustration from a book of fairy tales from Europe, translated into english
context_page_description: The Knights of the Fish is a Spanish fairy tale collected by Fernán Caballero in Cuentos. Oraciones y Adivinas. Andrew Lang included it in The Brown Fairy Book. Another version of the tale appears in A Book of Enchantments and Curses by Ruth Manning-Sanders.
  It is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type 303. Most tales of the sort begin with the father catching a talking fish thrice and, in the third time, the animal asks to be sacrificed and fed to the fisherman's wife and horses, and for his remains to be buried underneath a tree. By doing so, twins are born to him and his wife, as well as two foals and two trees.
  It is also classified as ATU 300, a widespread tale.
context_section_description: The Knights of the Fish (Spanish: "Los Caballeros del Pez") is a Spanish fairy tale collected by Fernán Caballero in Cuentos. Oraciones y Adivinas. Andrew Lang included it in The Brown Fairy Book. Another version of the tale appears in A Book of Enchantments and Curses by Ruth Manning-Sanders.
  It is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type 303 ("The Blood Brothers"). Most tales of the sort begin with the father catching a talking fish thrice and, in the third time, the animal asks to be sacrificed and fed to the fisherman's wife and horses, and for his remains to be buried underneath a tree. By doing so, twins are born to him and his wife, as well as two foals and two trees.
  It is also classified as ATU 300 ("The Dragon-Slayer"), a widespread tale.
caption: The seven-headed dragon. Illustration from Europa's Fairy Book (1916).
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