The Magic Haddock

The Magic Haddock was a short story, the moral of which was to be careful what you wish for. The Twelfth Doctor recited the story to the colonists of a planet visited by him, following an incident in which the planet's Emojibots went rogue. (TV: Smile)
== Trivia ==
* The story of The Magic Haddock appears to be based on two real life stories. 
** The first story is "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish", a fairy tale about a fish that grants wishes in exchange for its freedom, only for the fisherman to make his final wish to be for everything to return to normal. The fisherman made this wish after his wife became corrupted by her own greed when she kept forcing the fisherman to go back to the beach in order to gain more wishes.
** The second story is "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs, a short story about a couple who gain a monkey's paw that can grant wishes at a deadly cost. Like in The Magic Haddock, the couple wished for money and got it as compensation for their son's death and their final wish was for their previous wishes to be undone.
Category:Fairy tales