“The Crab that played with the Sea” is a fairy tale by English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling. There were times, when the crab used to be a sbig as a house, and was also very ignorant. He used to make the sea very rough, and wouldn not stop when an old magician asked him to. The wise old magician ends up casting a spell on him to make him small and pink, and still takes his shell away for one month every year as punishment.