King Kojata

King Kojata or The Unlooked for Prince or Prince Unexpected is a Slavonic fairy tale. Andrew Lang included the Russian version King Kojata, in The Green Fairy Book. A. H. Wratislaw collected a Polish variant Prince Unexpected in his Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources, number 17. A shorter, also Polish version, The Unlooked for Prince, was collected by Louis Léger in Contes Populaires Slaves and included by Andrew Lang in The Grey Fairy Book. Another version of the tale, titled Kojata, appears in A Book of Wizards by Ruth Manning-Sanders.

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