1.

Timun Mas

Long time ago, living a couple of farmers. They live in a village near the forest. They live happy,
unfortunately they have not only was a child also.

Every day they pray to the God. They pray to be soon be a child. One day a giant passes where they
reside. Giant prayer is heard that wife’s husband. Giant then provide them with seeds cucumber.

“Plant seeds of this, Later you will soon get a female child,” said the giant.
“Thank you, giant,” said the couple.
“But there is condition, at the age of 17 years the child must be submitted with you to me,” the giant
reply.
Without thinking long they agree, because it wanted a child.

Husband and wife farmers to plant the seeds cucumber. Every day they start caring for the plants that
grow with it as best as possible. Many months and then bear a cucumber with golden color.
Fruit cucumber that the longer become larger and heavier. When the fruit is ripe, they take it, carefully
slit the fruit. Sudenlly, in the fruit is found in infants of women who are very beautiful. Couple was very
happy, they gave the name of the baby Timun Mas.

Year after year passed, Timun Mas grown into a beautiful girl. Both parents are very proud of her. But
they became very afraid, because in the anniversary Timun Mas at 17, the giant will back. The giant take
back that promises to take Timun Mas.

Farmers are trying to calm. “Wait a moment. Timun Mas playing. My wife would called her,” he said.
Farmers find it immediately to her doughter. “My girl, take this,” she said while giving a cloth bag. “This
will help fight the giant. Now flee as soon as possible,” she said. So even Timun Mas immediately fled.

Couple on the sad departure Timun Mas. But they are not willing if their child become food giant. Giant
waiting long time. He was not a patient. He knew, was that lied by couple of farmers. And he also
destroyed the huts of the farmers. Then it was to pursue Timun Mas to forest.

Giant run chase immediately Timun Mas. Near the gian,Timun Mas immediately take the handful of salt
from the cloth pouch. Then salt spread it to the giant. Suddenly a wide sea also unfold. Giant forced to
swim with great difficulty.
Timun Mas ran again. But then most successful giant come closer. Timun Mas again taking bizarre
objects from a cloth bag. He took the handful chili. Chili throwed to the giant. At once the tree branches
and sharp thorns of the giant trap. Giant cried in pain. Timun Mas while running to save herself.

But the giant is really strong. He was again nearly captured Timun Mas. So Timun Mas is also a third
issue of miraculous. She sow seeds Cucumber magic. At once grow the cucumber garden very
knowledgeable. Giant very tired and hungry. He also eat the fresh cucumber with oneself. Because of
too much eating, giant was slept.
Timun Mas again fled. She ran for dear life. But long run power out. More unlucky again because a giant
awakened from sleep. Giant again almost catch her. Timun Mas very terrified. He also threw the last tool
handful shrimp paste. Again, miracles happen. A lake of mud spread wide. Giant fall into it. Hands
almost reach Timun Mas. But the lake mud is basic to withdraw it. Giant panic, he can not breathe, then
submerged.

Timun Mas relieved. She has survived, Timun Mas is also return to home to their parents. Father and
mother’s Timun Mas happy to see Timun Mas be save. They held, “Thank you, God. You have to save my
girl,” said their delighted.

Since that time Timun Mas can live quietly with her parents. They can be happy without living in fear
again.

2. Keong Emas

Once Upon a time. There lived a king named Kertamarta. He led a kingdom that was very beautiful and
majestic, the kingdom was the kingdom of Daha. King of Kertamarta had two beautiful daughters, Dewi
Galuh and Candra Kirana. They were very happy and well-off.

One day, there came a handsome prince from the kingdom of Kahuripan. The prince was named Raden
Inu Kertapati. The arrival of the Prince to the kingdom of Daha was to apply for one of the King’s
daughters, namely Candra Kirana. Prince’s arrival and intentions were welcomed by King of Kertamarta.
Princess Candra Kirana also accepted the application of Prince Raden Inu Kertapati.

Because the engagement was to make Dewi Galuh feel very jealous. She put his heart on Raden Inu
Kertapati and felt she was the one who was more suitable to be his fiance. From feeling iris then
developing into feelings of hatred. Dewi Galuh began planning to get rid of Candra Kirana from the
kingdom.
One day, Princess Dewi Galuh secretly went to see an evil witch. She asked for help from the witch to
conjure Candra Kiran into something disgusting and Prince Raden Inu stayed away from him. She also
hoped to become Candra Kirana’s successor as his fiance.

The witch also agreed to the request of Dewi Galuh. However, Magicians couldn’t enter the palace
because it would cause a suspicion. Finally, Dewi Galu had a strategy to slander Candra Kirana, so she
was expelled from the kingdom. Candra Kirana left the kingdom feeling sad. In the middle of the
journey, she met with the evil witch and conjured Candra Kirana into the Golden Snail. After successfully
conjuring Candra Kirana, the witch threw it into the river directly.

“Your curse will disappear if you can meet your fiance Prince Raden Inu.”

One day, a grandmother was looking for fish using nets. Finally, Golden Snail was involved in the net.
Seeing how beautiful the snail that she got. The grandmother immediately took him home and kept the
snail in a jar. The grandmother maintained the snail well and fed, so as not to die.

The next day, grandma returned to the river to look for fish. However, nothing she got. Because it had
been too long but didn’t get results. She immediately decided to go home.

When grandma was back home. She was very surprised. She saw a very tasty meal already available on
her desk. She was very surprised and wondered who had made this food.

Every day similar events continue to occur. Feeling curious, the grandmother decided to pretend to go
to the sea. Actually, she wanted to know and to peek who had made food.

The grandmother was very surprised. Seeing the snail that she kept in a jar turned into a beautiful girl.
The beautiful girl immediately prepared food on the table. Because of his curiosity, the grandmother
immediately approached the beautiful girl

“Who are you, beautiful princess? And where are you from? ” Grandma asked.

The snail that turned into its original form, Candra Kirana. Very surprised to see the sudden arrival of
grandma. Finally, Candra Kirana explained who she really was. And told why she turned into Golden
Snail. After explaining to the grandmother, Candra Kirana again changed form to Golden Snail.

Meanwhile, Prince Raden Inu looked for Princess Candra Kirana who suddenly disappeared somewhere.
However, he could not get news from Candra Kirana. Prince Raden Inu found that he was very sure that
Chandra Kirana was still alive. Because that belief made Raden Inu not stop looking. He also promised,
would not return to the kingdom before finding his fiance, Candra Kirana.

Finally, the evil witch knew that Prince Raden Inu Kertapti was looking for Candra Kirana. She looked for
ways that the Prince could not find Candra Kirana. She also disguised himself as a crow.

On the way, Raden Inu Kertapti was shocked by a crow who could talk. The crow knew its purpose.
Prince, who felt happy and thought that the bird knew where Candra Kirana is. He also followed the
instructions which were given by a crow. Even though the road instructions were wrong.
Raden Inu began to get confused with the instructions were given by a crow. On the way, he met an old
grandfather who was starving. He immediately gave food. Apparently, the grandfather was powerful
and helped Raden Inu from a crow. Grandpa hit a crow with his wand and suddenly a crow turned into
smoke.

The grandfather gave directions. Prince Raden Inu Kertapati was in a hurry towards Dadapan Village. For
days, he traveled. However, in the middle of the journey, the lunch had run out. He felt very thirsty. he
also saw a house and immediately headed to the house. He intended to ask for a glass of water. But
instead of just the water, he got but Candra Kirana who he was looking for. He saw his fiance from the
window cooking.

Finally, Prince Raden Inu Kertapti could find Candra Kirana. He felt very happy. Likewise with Candra
Kirana who managed to eliminate the curse, when meeting her fiance. Candra Kirana was a beautiful
girl.

Raden Inu Kertapti immediately brought Candra Kirana to the kingdom of Daha. He also invited
Grandma who had helped him. Candra Kirana also explained Dewi Galu’s actions so far to the King.
Finally, the crime of Dewi Galu was exposed.

Dewi Galuh was punished for his actions. However, because she felt afraid of punishment. She fled to
the forest. While the king apologized to Candra.

Finally, Prince Raden Inu Kertapti and Candra Kirana decided to get married. They live happily.

3. Malin Kundang

Once upon a time, on the north coast of Sumatra lived a poor woman and his son. The boy was called
Malin Kundang. They didn’t earn much as fishing was their only source of income. Malin Kundang grew
up as a skillful young boy. He always helps his mother to earn some money. However, as they were only
fisherman’s helper, they still lived in poverty. “Mother, what if I sail overseas?” asked Malin Kundang
one day to his mother. Her mother didn’t agree but Malin Kundang had made up his mind. “Mother, if I
stay here, I’ll always be a poor man. I want to be a successful person,” urged Malin kundang. His mother
wiped her tears, “If you really want to go, I can’t stop you. I could only pray to God for you to gain
success in life,” said his mother wisely. “But, promise me, you’ll come home.”

In the next morning, Malin Kundang was ready to go. Three days ago, he met one of the successful ship’s
crew. Malin was offered to join him. “Take a good care of yourself, son,” said Malin Kundang’s mother
as she gave him some food supplies. “Yes, Mother,” Malin Kundang said. “You too have to take a good
care of yourself. I’ll keep in touch with you,” he continued before kissing his mother’s hand. Before
Malin stepped onto the ship, Malin’s mother hugged him tight as if she didn’t want to let him go.

It had been three months since Malin Kundang left his mother. As his mother had predicted before, he
hadn’t contacted her yet. Every morning, she stood on the pier. She wished to see the ship that brought
Malin kundang home. Every day and night, she prayed to the God for her son’s safety. There was so
much prayer that had been said due to her deep love for Malin Kundang. Even though it’s been a year
she had not heard any news from Malin Kundang, she kept waiting and praying for him.

After several years waiting without any news, Malin Kundang’s mother was suddenly surprised by the
arrival of a big ship in the pier where she usually stood to wait for her son. When the ship finally pulled
over, Malin Kundang’s mother saw a man who looked wealthy stepping down a ladder along with a
beautiful woman. She could not be wrong. Her blurry eyes still easily recognized him. The man was
Malin Kundang, her son.

Malin Kundang’s mother quickly went to see her beloved son. “Malin, you’re back, son!” said Malin
Kundang’s mother and without hesitation, she came running to hug Malin Kundang, “I miss you so
much.” But, Malin Kundang didn’t show any respond. He was ashamed to admit his own mother in front
of his beautiful wife. “You’re not my Mother. I don’t know you. My mother would never wear such
ragged and ugly clothes,” said Malin Kundang as he release his mother embrace.

Malin Kundang’s mother take a step back, “Malin…You don’t recognize me? I’m your mother!” she said
sadly. Malin Kundang’s face was as cold as ice. “Guard, take this old women out of here,” Malin Kundang
ordered his bodyguard. “Give her some money so she won’t disturb me again!” Malin Kundang’s mother
cried as she was dragged by the bodyguard, ”Malin… my son. Why do you treat your own mother like
this?”

Malin Kundang ignored his mother and ordered the ship crews to set sail. Malin Kundang’s mother sat
alone in the pier. Her heart was so hurt, she cried and cried. “Dear God, if he isn’t my son, please let him
have a save journey. But if he is, I cursed him to become a stone,” she prayed to the God.

In the quiet sea, suddenly the wind blew so hard and a thunderstorm came. Malin Kundang’s huge ship
was wrecked. He was thrown by the wave out of his ship, and fell on a small island. Suddenly, his whole
body turned into stone. He was punished for not admitting his own mother.

4. Bawang Putih and Bawang Merah

Long time ago in a village lived a family consisting of father, mother and a beautiful teenage girl named
Bawang Putih (garlic). They are a happy family. Although the father Bawang Putih (garlic) traders only
normal, but they are harmonious and peaceful living. But one day the mother Bawang Putih (garlic) sick
and eventually died. Bawang Putih (Garlic) very similarly in his father’s sorrow.

Live in the village is also a widow who has a child named Bawang Merah (Onion). Since the mother’s
Bawang putih died, Bawang Merah mother often went to the Bawang Putih house. He often brings food,
Bawang Merah help tidy the house or just keep Bawang Putih and shoot the father. Finally Bawang Putih
father thinking that it may be best if he just married mother Bawang Merah, Bawang Putih not so lonely
anymore. Then Bawang Putih’s father and Bawang Merah’s mother married. Originally Bawang Merah
mother’s and Bawang Merah is very good to Bawang putih. However, the nature of long run they began
to look authentic. They often bristle Bawang Putih and gave her a job if the father of Bawang Putih are
going to trade. Bawang Putih must do all homework, while Bawang Merah’s mother and Bawang Merah
just sit only. Of course Bawang white father did not know about it, because Bawang Putih never tell to
her father.

One day Bawang Putih’s father fell ill and then died. Since that time Bawang Merah’s mother and
Bawang merah more powerful and haphazardly against to Bawang putih. Bawang Putih almost never
rest. She should wake up before dawn, to prepare the water bath and breakfast for Bawang Merah and
her mother. Then he had to feed the livestock, watering thegarden and wash clothes to the river. But he
still must iron the clothes, tidy house, and many other jobs. But Bawang Putih always happy to do the
work, because she hopes one day the stepmother will love such as her child own.

This morning as usual Bawang Putih bring basket containing the clothes in the river will wash. She sang
with the small paths in the forest edge of a small regular she walk. Today the weather was very bright.
Bawang Putih immediately wash all the dirty clothes brought. She fell very happy, Bawang putih not
realize that one of the clothes have been brought out flow. Unfortunately the shirt is a lovely shirt her
stepmother.

When the think that, clothes’s stepmother was too far away. Bawang Putih, try the river to search for it,
but did not succeed to find it. With the despair he returned to the house and told to his mother.

“filthy!” Rave stepmother. “I did not want to know, the main thing you need to find the clothes! And do
not dare go home if you have not found it. Understand? ”

Bawang Putih forced to obey the wishes her stepmother. She immediately wen to place the river
washed earlier. The sun has begun to escalate, but Bawang Putih not find clothes for her mother. He
installed her eyes, thoroughly looking for each radix stick to the root of the river, the mother who knows
clothes get caught in there. After a long stride and the sun is slanting to the west, Bawang Putih saw a
rancher who is bath him buffalo. Bawang putih then ask: “O good uncle, do you see the red shirt who
wander through here? Because I have to find and bring it home. ” “Yes I see the bud earlier. If you
pursue quick, you may be able to pursue, “said the uncle. “Ok uncle, thank you!” Said Bawang Putih and
immediately ran back the river bank.
Day has begun dark, Bawang Putih have started despair. The night will soon arrive, and Bawang putih.
From a distance appear to light the lamp that came from a hut in the river bank. Bawang putih
immediately came to the house and knock the door.

“Excuse me …!” Said Bawang putih. An old woman opened the door. “Who are you kid?” ask the
grandmother.

“I’am Bawang putih grandmother. Earlier I’am looking for a dress my mother that away in the river. And
now benighted. Can I stay here tonight? “ask Bawang putih.

“Can. Are you looking for a shirt red? “Ask grandmother.

“Yes granmother. What is … u find it? “ask Bawang putih.

“Yes. Earlier clothes that get caught in front of the house. Unfortunately, when I like that dress,”said the
grandmother. “Okay I will return it, but you must first stay here for a week. I do not have long
conversation with anyone, how? “Fate grandmother.

Bawang Putih think a moment. It seems lonely grandmother. Bawang Putih also felt compassion.

“Nek Okay, I will accompany a grandmother for a week, the grandmother is not bored with it,” said
Bawang Putih smile.

Bawang Putih for a week to stay with the grandmother. Bawang Putih every day to help grandmother’s
the work house. Of course, the grandmother feel happy. Until eventually even have a week, a
grandmother also called Bawang Putih.”Nak, you have a week to stay here. And I am happy because
you’re a studious child and kind. Therefore, it is appropriate my promise you can bring home your
mother shirt. And one more, you can choose one of two pumpkin as a gift!” Said the grandmother.

Initially Bawang white refused grandmother give the gifts but grandmother force her. Bawang putih
finally choose the most small pumpkin. “I’m afraid, canot to bring a big one,” she said. Grandmother was
smiling and deliver Bawang Putih untill to the front house.

Reachhe at home, Bawang Putih give a red shirt to her stepmother owned while she went to the kitchen
to chop the yellow pumpkin. Would surprise Bawang Putih when pumpkin split it, there appeared to
contain a gold jewel is very large. She shout so happy and told the wonderful things to her stepmother
and Bawang Merah with a greedy suddenly seize the gold and the jewel. They force Bawang Putih to
recount how she can get these gifts. Bawang putih told with honest.

Hear the story of Bawang Putih, Bawang Merah and her mother plan to do the same thing but this time
Bawang Merah will do it. In short word, Bawang Merah reache in the house grandmother in the river.
Such as Bawang Putih, Bawang Merah also be required to accompany for a week. Not like Bawang putih
that diligent, for a week of Bawang Merah only sit Lazy.

Even if there is then the result is never good because it always works with the origin-derived. Finally
after a week that grandmother allows Bawang Merah to go. “The grandmother should be given the
pumpkin as gifts because i had accompany for a week?” Ask Bawang Merah. Grandmother had told
Bawang Merah select one of two of the pumpkin offered. Quickly Bawang Merah take a large pumpkin
and without thanked to her swing away.

Reach in the house Bawang Merah immediately to meet her mother and happyly show the pumpkin
that brought. For fear of Bawang Putih will ask for it, they told Bawang Putih to go to the river. Then
they can not wait to rip the pumpkin. But was not gold jewel that is out of the pumpkin, but animals
such as venomous snakes, scorpions, and others.

5. The Fox and The Crow

Eventually there was a fox that saw a Crow flying off with an item of cheese in its beak as well as clear
up pleasantly on a branch of a tree.

” That’s my food, because I am a Fox,” Master Reynard stated, while he was mosting likely to the foot of
the tree.

” Good day, Girlfriend Crow,” he welcomed. “Just how gorgeous you are looking today: how shiny your
softy plumes; exactly how brilliant your eagle eye. I feel certain your voice must surpass that of various
other birds, just as your number does; allow me take pleasure in one tune from you that I may greet you
as the Queen of Birds.”

The Crow lifted up her head and also croaked her ideal, but the minute she opened her mouth the item
of cheese dropped to the ground, and directly got by Master Fox.

” That will certainly do,” he said. “That was all I actually desired. As the substitution for your cheese I will
give you an item of sensible suggestions for the future: “Do not depend on phonies.”

6. Ant & Grasshopper

Once, in one summer season’s day there was a grasshopper that was jumping around, cheeping and
singing to its heart’s web content In an area. An ant passed by, birthing along with massive toil an ear of
corn he was saving to the nest.

” Why do not you come as well as appreciate the day with me?” claimed the grasshopper, “rather than
toiling constantly?”

” I am mosting likely to lay up food for the following winter months,” stated the ant, “and recommend
you to do the same with me.”

“Why should we care about wintertime?” said the grasshopper; “We have had a great deal of foods
currently.” Yet the ant kept walking on its way and also proceeded its toil.

When the wintertime came the insect didn’t have any kind of food and discovered itself passing away of
cravings– while it saw the ant supplying daily, corn and grain from the stores they had actually collected
before. Then the insect acknowledged: It is best to prepare well for days of something we need in the
future.

7. Bear and Lion

One upon a time a lion and also a bear caught and killed a goat. They had a quarrel over it.

” It is mine,” claimed the bear. “I captured it with my strong paws.”

” It is not yours. It is mine,” said the lion. “I eliminated it with my strong jaws.”

Then they started to fight over it. They added and down capital, under and over the dropped trees, in
and out of the woodland. They bit as well as scratched with their stamina, yet no person can conquer
the other.

At last they both were weakened and might combat no longer. They lay upon the ground, panting as
well as checking out each various other.

A fox that was passing by at the time saw them with a dead goat near by. She added to them, took the
goat residence and also consumed it up.

8. Rabbit & Crocodile

Once upon a time, a Bunny wished to go across a river, however he could not swim. He had a concept,
he saw a boss of Crocodiles swimming in the river. The Bunny asked he go across of crocodile.

“how many crocodile exist in the river?” in charge of crocodile answered, “we are twenty below”.

“where are they?”the Bunny requested the second time. “just what is it for?” in charge crocodile asked.

“all you are good, mild and also kind, so I wish to make a line in order. Later, I will certainly understand
exactly how kind you are,” said the Rabbit.

After that the boss of the Crocodiles called all his good friend an asked then making a line in order from
one side to the order side of the river. Fust after that, the Bunny began to count while jumping from one
crocodile to an additional: one … 2 … three … four … till twenty. And finally, he said thanks to all
Crocodiles because he had actually gone across the river.

In the myth we could discover massage is, prior to act, we think to do first, so that we could finish the
challenging problem.

9. The Eagle Who Lived Like a Hen

In a forest an eagle lived on a tree. It had constructed a nest wherein to lay its eggs. There the eagle
would certainly hatch its eggs throughout the day.

Under the same tree there lived a hen. The hen had also laid eggs throughout the very same period
when the eagle had actually laid its eggs.

One day, while the eagle had actually gone for hunting, a bear went up the tree to consume the eagle’s
eggs. The bear had actually completed three of the eggs when the fourth one slid off its hands as well as
fell under the hen’s nest. On returning, the eagle could not locate her eggs. Feeling extremely
distressed, she chose to leave the location.

The hen which lived under the tree saw the eagle’s egg alongside her eggs. She felt eggs pity on the
eagle’s egg, as well as decided to hatch it too. After a few days, the hen’s chicks hatched. The eagle’s
chick hatched, too.

The hen would feed all the chicks, including the eagle’s chick, as if it were her very own. Soon the chicks
began to grow.

The young chicks would certainly pay attention to their mother’s sounds and also attempt to mimic her.
The eagle’s chick additionally grabbed the hen’s noises. The chicks would all play with each other and
also make lots of sound.

Within no time the hen’s chicks along with the eagle’s chick matured to their full size. The eagle’s chick
never ever recognized that it was an eagle and also not a chicken. Considering itself a chicken, the eagle
would certainly. eat chicken’s food, would certainly stroll as well as run like various other chickens and
would make sounds like chickens. The eagle never learnt to fly like other eagles as well as lived its entire
life like a hen only.

10. The Legend of Ruai Bird

In the past, there was a kingdom in West Kalimantan. The King had 7 little girls. The queen had actually
passed away. The king did not intend to remarry.

The seven daughters were beautiful. Nevertheless, the youngest little girl was one of the most stunning.
She was likewise the kindest. She commonly helped other individuals. Her sisters were significantly
different. They were lazy. They additionally had attitude problem. They were cruel to individuals.

The king learnt about his daughters practices. He typically advise his older child to practices. He
commonly advise his older little girls to behave like the youngest little girl. Regretfully, they never heard
the king’s advice. They hated their youngest sibling due to the fact that the king commonly praised her
excellent behavior.

The older children commonly did horrible points to the youngest child. They commonly struck her. She
was very depressing. She usually cried. She might not inform it to her daddy since her older siblings
constantly intimidated her. They would certainly strike her also harder if she informed their daddy.
One day, the king asked all her daughters to meet him.

” I’m mosting likely to the bordering kingdom. I’ll opt for numerous months. While I’m gone, my
youngest daughter will rule the kingdom. Do you comprehend?” asked the king.

” Yes, we do, Papa, “claimed all the little girls.

The older children were upset. They very upset regarding their youngest sibling was asked to rule the
kingdom.

After the king left, they prepared something negative. They wished to remove their youngest sister.
They pretended to be wonderful to her. The youngest child enjoyed. Lastly, her older siblings behaved to
her.

The older sisters asked her to go fishing. They asked to head to Gua Batu or a stone cave. There was a
river streaming inside the cavern. And there were a great deal of fish because river.

The youngest child was so delighted when they ultimately reached the cave. She did not know that her
siblings were mosting likely to do something negative to her.

” Rush, let’s go inside the cave. You could discover a lot of fish inside the cavern,” said the oldest
daughter.

The youngest was so excited. As she went inside the cavern, she did not know that her sis remained
outside the cavern. They continued asking her to go inside the cave.

She kept walking till she was shed! She was calling out all her sis, however they did not respond. She
after that recognized that her siblings did not want her to rule the kingdom anymore.

She was extremely sad. She sobbed. Instantly an old man came. He was a holy man. He was practicing
meditation in the cave. She changed her tears right into eggs.

” Don’t fret, I could assist you. You can go back to the kingdom yet you need to change into a bird. I call
you Ruai Bird. After

wards, Brood these eggs. After they hatch, the birds will accompany you,” stated the old man.

She agreed. Slowly she became a stunning bird. And also nevertheless the eggs were hatched, they went
back to the kingdom. They all stayed at the tree near the kingdom. They all saw exactly how the king
penalized the older sis

11. The Eagle and Crow

There lived a crow on a tree top. Everyday he used to view with utter wonder the acts of an eagle.

The eagle had a nest high up on a hill. He made use of to swoop below there to get hold of a lamb as
well as fly up once more and also all in one go.

The crow was surprised by the accomplishment of the eagle.

Someday he was so excited that he wanted to mimic the eagle. So up he flew as high as he could. From
there he started to swoop down. He came down as well as down. Yet alas, he might not regulate
himself. He collapsed on the ground a

12. The Foolist Donkey

A salt vendor utilized to bring the salt bag on his donkey to the marketplace each day. On the way they
needed to cross a stream. One day the donkey unexpectedly toppled down the stream and also the salt
bag likewise fell under the water. The salt liquified in the water as well as thus the bag ended up being
extremely light to lug. The donkey enjoyed.

Then the donkey started to play the exact same technique each day. The salt seller pertained to
understand the technique as well as determined to educate a lesson to it. The following day he filled a
cotton bag on the donkey. Once again it played the same technique wishing that the cotton bag would
be still come to be lighter.

However the wetted cotton became really heavy to lug and it endured much. It found out a lesson. After
that it did not play the technique and the seller enjoyed.nd also damaged his beak.

13. Situ Begendit

Far away in an isolated village there was a young rich woman. The house that she had been living in was
very big. Her wealth was plentiful. The young woman lived by herself. She didn’t have any friend at all.

“Wouw, I am very rich! Ha…ha…ha, I am the richest woman in this village!” said the young woman while
she was looking at her gold and jewelries. It was so pity, that the young woman was very miserly. Her
plentiful wealth never been used to help others.

“All of the wealth is mine, isn’t it? So what am I give it all to other for?” The young woman thought.
However, many of villagers were poor. They lived in less condition. Sometimes some villagers were
hunger, and didn’t get any food for days.

Because of the young woman miserly, the villagers called her Bagenda Endit. Bagenda Endit meant the
miserly rich person. “Bagenda Endit, have mercy on me! My child has not eaten for few days”, said an
old woman sadly.

“Hi, you crazy old woman! Get away from me!” yelled Bagenda Endit threw the old woman away.
Because the old woman didn’t want to go, Bagenda Endit splashed her with water. Splash!, and all over
the old woman body and her baby became wet.

Bagenda Endit was a feeling less woman. She didn’t even have a little bit mercy to the old woman and
her baby. She even got more angry. After that, she asked the old woman to get out of her house yard.
And then, she was dragging her out of the yard.

Although Bagenda Endit was very miserly, the village people kept coming in. The came for the water
wheel. “No, I won’t let you to take away the water from my wheel! The water in the wheel is mine!”
Bagenda Endit yelled angrily.

“Ha…ha…ha…you’re all stupid! You think you just can take the water from my wheel!” Bagenda Endit
said while she was watching the thirst villagers outside the fence. Suddenly, a decrepit man was
standing in Bagenda Endit house yard. He was walking tottery to the wheel while holding his stick.

When the old man was trying to take the water, Bagenda Endit saw it. Then, she hit the old man with a
founder. “Have mercy on me Bagenda Endit! I want to take the water just for a drink”, said the old man
when he was trying to get up.
Bagenda Endit kept beating the old man. And then, an astonishing thing happened. Suddenly the old
man got up with a healthy body. He walked closer to Bagenda Endit. He pointed his stick at the cruel rich
woman’s nose.

“Hi, Bagenda Endit, take the punishment from me!” said the old man loudly. Then he pointed at the
wheel with his stick. Wus…byuur, the wheel was sprinkling the water swiftly. Not long enough, the water
was flooding up. Bagenda Endit couldn’t save herself. She drawn with all of her wealth.

The village was disappeared. The thing that left was a wide and deep lake. The lake was named Situ
Bagendit. Situ means a wide lake. It was named Situ Bagendit, because the wide lake came from a wheel
that belongs to Bagenda Endit.

14. The Poor Man and The Rich Man

In olden times, when the Lord himself still used to walk about on this earth amongst men, it once
happened that he was tired and overtaken by the darkness before he could reach an inn. Now there
stood on the road before him two houses facing each other, the one large and beautiful, the other small
and poor. The large one belonged to a rich man, and the small one to a poor man.

Then the Lord thought, I shall be no burden to the rich man. I will stay the night with him. Then the rich
man heard someone knocking at his door, he opened the window and asked the stranger what he
wanted. The Lord answered, I only ask for a night's lodging.

Then the rich man looked at the traveler from head to foot, and as the Lord was wearing common
clothes, and did not look like one who had much money in his pocket, he shook his head, and said, no, I
cannot take you in, my rooms are full of herbs and seeds. And if I were to lodge everyone who knocked
at my door, I might very soon go begging myself. Go somewhere else for a lodging, and with this he shut
down the window and left the Lord standing there.

So the Lord turned his back on the rich man, and went across to the small house and knocked. He had
hardly done so when the poor man opened the little door and bade the traveler come in. Pass the night
with me, it is already dark, said he. You cannot go any further to-night. This pleased the Lord, and he
went in.

The poor man's wife shook hands with him, and welcomed him, and said he was to make himself at
home and put up with what they had got. They had not much to offer him, but what they had they
would give him with all their hearts. Then she put the potatoes on the fire, and while they were boiling,
she milked the goat, that they might have a little milk with them. When the cloth was laid, the Lord sat
down with the man and his wife, and he enjoyed their coarse food, for there were happy faces at the
table. When they had had supper and it was bed-time, the woman called her husband apart and said,
listen, dear husband, let us make up a bed of straw for ourselves to-night, and then the poor traveler
can sleep in our bed and have a good rest, for he has been walking the whole day through, and that
makes one weary. With all my heart, he answered, I will go and offer it to him. And he went to the
stranger and invited him, if he had no objection, to sleep in their bed and rest his limbs properly. But
the Lord was unwilling to take their bed from the two old folks. However, they would not be satisfied,
until at length he did it and lay down in their bed, while they themselves lay on some straw on the
ground.

Next morning they got up before daybreak, and made as good a breakfast as they could for the guest.
When the sun shone in through the little window, and the Lord had got up, he again ate with them, and
then prepared to set out on his journey.

But as he was standing at the door he turned round and said, as you are so kind and good, you may wish
three things for yourselves and I will grant them. Then the man said, what else should I wish for but
eternal happiness, and that we two, as long as we live, may be healthy and have every day our daily
bread. For the third wish, I do not know what to have. And the Lord said to him, will you wish for a new
house instead of this old one. Oh, yes, said the man.

If I can have that, too, I should like it very much. And the Lord fulfilled his wish, and changed their old
house into a new one, again gave them his blessing, and went on. The sun was high when the rich man
got up and leaned out of his window and saw, on the opposite side of the way, a new clean-looking
house with red tiles and bright windows where the old hut used to be. He was very much astonished,
and called his wife and said to her, tell me, what can have happened.

Last night there was a miserable little hut standing there, and to-day there is a beautiful new house.
Run over and see how that has come to pass. So his wife went and asked the poor man, and he said to
her, yesterday evening a traveler came here and asked for a night's lodging, and this morning when he
took leave of us he granted us three wishes - eternal happiness, health during this life and our daily
bread as well, and besides this, a beautiful new house instead of our old hut.

When the rich man's wife heard this, she ran back in haste and told her husband how it had happened.
The man said, I could tear myself to pieces. If I had but known that. That traveler came to our house
too, and wanted to sleep here, and I sent him away. Quick, said his wife, get on your horse. You can still
catch the man up, and then you must ask to have three wishes granted to you also. The rich man
followed the good counsel and galloped away on his horse, and soon came up with the Lord. He spoke
to him softly and pleasantly, and begged him not to take it amiss that he had not let him in directly. He
was looking for the front-door key, and in the meantime the stranger had gone away. If he returned the
same way he must come and stay with him. Yes, said the Lord. If I ever come back again, I will do so.
Then the rich man asked if might not wish for three things too, as his neighbor had done.

Yes, said the Lord, he might, but it would not be to his advantage, and he had better not wish for
anything. But the rich man thought that he could easily ask for something which would add to his
happiness, if he only knew that it would be granted. So the Lord said to him, ride home, then, and three
wishes which you shall make, shall be fulfilled. The rich man had now gained what he wanted, so he
rode home, and began to consider what he should wish for. As he was thus thinking he let the bridle
fall, and the horse began to caper about, so that he was continually disturbed in his meditations, and
could not collect his thoughts at all. He patted its neck, and said, gently, lisa, but the horse only began
new tricks. Then at last he was angry, and cried quite impatiently, I wish your neck was broken. Directly
he had said the words, down the horse fell on the ground, and there it lay dead and never moved again.
And thus was his first wish fulfilled. As he was miserly by nature, he did not like to leave the harness
lying there. So he cut it off, and put it on his back. And now he had to go on foot. I have still two wishes
left, said he, and comforted himself with that thought.

And now as he was walking slowly through the sand, and the sun was burning hot at noon-day, he grew
quite bad-tempered and angry. The saddle hurt his back, and he had not yet any idea what to wish for.
If I were to wish for all the riches and treasures in the world, said he to himself, I should still to think of
all kinds of other things later on. I know that, beforehand. But I will manage so that there is nothing at
all left me to wish for afterwards. Then he sighed and said, ah, if I were but that bavarian peasant, who
likewise had three wishes granted to him, and knew quite well what to do, and in the first place wished
for a great deal of beer, and in the second for as much beer as he was able to drink, and in the third for a
barrel of beer into the bargain. Many a time he thought he had found it, but then it seemed to him to
be, after all, too little.

Then it came into his mind, what an easy life his wife had, for she stayed at home in a cool room and
enjoyed herself. This really did vex him, and before he was aware, he said, I just wish she was sitting
there on this saddle, and could not get off it, instead of my having to drag it along on my back. And as
the last word was spoken, the saddle disappeared from his back, and he saw that his second wish had
been fulfilled. Then he really did feel hot.

He began to run and wanted to be quite alone in his own room at home, to think of something really big
for his last wish. But when he arrived there and opened the parlor-door, he saw his wife sitting in the
middle of the room on the saddle, crying and complaining, and quite unable to get off it. So he said, do
bear it, and I will wish for all the riches on earth for you, only stay where you are. She, however, called
him a fool, and said, what good will all the riches on earth do me, if I am to sit on this saddle. You have
wished me on it, so you must help me off. So whether he would or not, he was forced to let his third
wish be that she should be quit of the saddle, and able to get off it, and immediately the wish was
fulfilled. So he got nothing by it but vexation, trouble, abuse, and the loss of his horse. But the poor
people lived contentedly, quietly, and piously until their happy death.

15. The Thief and His Master

Hans wished to put his son to learn a trade, so he went into the church and prayed to our Lord God to
know which would be the most suitable for him. Then the clerk got behind the altar, and said, thieving,
thieving. On this Hans goes back to his son, and tells him he is to learn thieving, and that the Lord God
had said so. So he goes with his son to seek a man who is acquainted with thieving.

They walk a long time and come into a great forest, where stands a little house with an old woman in it.
Hans says, do you know of a man who is acquainted with thieving. You can learn that here quite well,
says the woman, my son is a master of it. So he speaks with the son, and asks if he knows thieving really
well. The master-thief says, I will teach him well. Come back when a year is over, and then if you
recognize your son, I will take no payment at all for teaching him, but if you don't know him, you must
give me two hundred talers.
The father goes home again, and the son learns witchcraft and thieving, thoroughly. When the year is
out, the father is full of anxiety to know how he shall recognize his son. As he is thus going about in his
trouble, he meets a little dwarf, who says, man, what ails you, that you are always in such trouble.

Oh, says Hans, a year ago I placed my son with a master-thief who told me I was to come back when the
year was out, and that if I then did not know my son when I saw him, I was to pay two hundred talers,
but if I did know him I was to pay nothing, and now I am afraid of not knowing him and can't tell where I
am to get the money. Then the dwarf tells him to take a crust of bread with him, and to stand beneath
the chimney. There on the cross-beam is a basket, out of which a little bird is peeping, and that is your
son.

Hans goes thither, and throws a crust of black bread in front of the basket with the bird in it, and the
little bird comes out, and looks up. Hello, my son, are you here, says the father, and the son is delighted
to see his father, but the master-thief says, the devil must have prompted you, or how could you have
known your son.

Father, let us go, said the youth. Then the father and son set out homeward. On the way a carriage
comes driving by. Hereupon the son says to his father, I will change myself into a large greyhound, and
then you can earn a great deal of money by me. Then the gentleman calls from the carriage, my man,
will you sell your dog. Yes, says the father. How much do you want for it. Thirty talers. Well, man, that
is a great deal, but as it is such a very fine dog I will have it. The gentleman takes it into his carriage, but
when they have driven a little farther the dog springs out of the carriage through the window, and goes
back to his father, and is no longer a greyhound.

They go home together. Next day there is a fair in the neighboring town, so the youth says to his father,
I will now change myself into a beautiful horse, and you can sell me, but when you have sold me, you
must take off my bridle, or I cannot become a man again. Then the father goes with the horse to the
fair, and the master-thief comes and buys the horse for a hundred talers, but the father forgets, and
does not take off the bridle. So the man goes home with the horse, and puts it in the stable.

When the maid crosses the threshold, the horse says, take off my bridle, take off my bridle. Then the
maid stands still, and says, what, can you speak. So she goes and takes the bridle off, and the horse
becomes a sparrow, and flies out at the door, and the master-thief becomes a sparrow also, and flies
after him.

Then they come together and cast lots again, and the master loses. So the master changes himself into a
cock, and the youth becomes a fox, and bites the master's head off, and he died and has remained dead
to this day.

16. Sangkuriang and Dayang Sumbi

Once upon a time in west Java, Indonesia lived a wise king who had a beautiful daughter. Her name
was Dayang Sumbi. She liked weaving very much. Once she was weaving a cloth when one of her tool
fell to the ground. She was very tired at the time so she was too lazy to take it. Then she just shouted
outloud.

‘Anybody there? Bring me my tool. I will give you special present. If you are female, I will consider you
as my sister. If you are male, I will marry you’

Suddenly a male dog, its name was Tumang, came. He brought her the falling tool. Dayang Sumbi was
very surprised. She regretted her words but she could not deny it. So she had to marry Tumang and
leave her father. Then they lived in a small village. Several months later they had a son. His name was
Sangkuriang. He was a handsome and healthy boy.

Sangkuriang liked hunting very much. He often went hunting to the wood using his arrow. When he
went hunting Tumang always with him. In the past there were many deer in Java so Sangkuriang often
hunted for deer.

One day Dayang Sumbi wanted to have deer’s heart so she asked Sangkuriang to hunt for a deer. Then
Sangkuriang went to the wood with his arrow and his faithful dog Tumang. But after several days in the
wood Sangkuriang could not find any deer. They were all disappeared. Sangkuriang was exhausted and
desperate. He did not want to disappoint her mother so he killed Tumang. He did not know that
Tumang was his father. At home he gave Tumang’s heart to her mother.

But Dayang Sumbi knew that it was Tumang’s heart. She was so angry that she could not control her
emotion. She hit Sangkuriang at his head. Sangkuriang was wounded. There was a scar in his head.
She also repelled her son. Sangkuriang left her mother in sadness.

Many years passed and Sangkuriang became a strong young man. He wandered everywhere. One
day he arrived at his own village but he did not realized it. There he met Dayang Sumbi. At the time
Dayang Sumbi was given an eternal beauty by God so she stayed young forever. Both of them did not
know each other. So they fell in love and then they decided to marry.

But then Dayang Sumbi recognized a scar on his Sangkuriang’s head. She knew that Sangkuriang was his
son. It was impossible for them to marry. She told him but he did not believe her. He wished that they
marry soon. So Dayang Sumbi gave a very difficult condition. She wanted Sangkuriang to build a lake
and a boat in one night! She said she needed that for honeymoon.
Sangkuriang agreed. With the help of genie and spirits Sangkuriang tried to build them. By midnight he
had finished the lake by building a dam in Citarum river. Then he started building the boat. It was
almost dawn when he nearly finished it. Meanwhile Dayang Sumbi kept watching on them. She was
very worried when she knew this. So she made lights in the east. Then the spirits thought that it was
already dawn. It was time for them to leave. They left Sangkuriang alone. Without their help he could
not finish the boat.

Sangkuriang was very angry. He kicked the boat. Then the boat turned out to be Mount Tangkuban
Perahu. It means boat upside down. From a distant it looks like a boat upside down.

17. Rapunzel

There was once a couple who had long in vain wished for a child. At length the woman hoped that God
was about to grant her desire. They had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid
garden could be seen, which was full of beautiful flowers and herbs. It was, however, surrounded by a
high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power
and was dreaded by all the world.

One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a
bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion - rapunzel, and it looked so fresh and green that
she longed for it, and had the greatest desire to eat some. This desire increased every day, and as she
knew that she could not get any of it, she quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable. Her
husband was alarmed, and asked, "what makes you sad, dear wife." "Ah", she replied, "if I can't eat
some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die". The man, who loved her,
thought, sooner than let your wife die, bring her some of the rampion yourself, let it cost what it will. At
twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful
of rampion, and took it to his wife. She at once made herself a salad of it, and ate it greedily. It tasted so
good to her - so very good, that the next day she longed for it three times as much as before.

If he was to have any rest, her husband must once more descend into the garden. In the gloom of
evening, therefore, he let himself down again. But when he had clambered down the wall he was
terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantress standing before him. "How dare you", said she with angry
look, "descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief. You shall suffer for it". He answered,
"let mercy take the place of justice, I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity. My wife saw your
rampion from the window, and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got
some to eat". Then the enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him, if the case be as
you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will, only I make one condition,
you must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world. It shall be well treated, and I will
care for it like a mother.

The man in his terror consented to everything, and when the woman was brought to bed, the
enchantress appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her.
Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child under the sun.

When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest, and had
neither stairs nor door, but quite at the top was a little window. When the enchantress wanted to go in,
she placed herself beneath it and cried, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair to me".

Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress
she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and
then the hair fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.

After a year or two, it came to pass that the king's son rode through the forest and passed by the tower.
Then he heard a song, which was so charming that he stood still and listened. This was

Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting her sweet voice resound. The king's son wanted
to climb up to her, and looked for the door of the tower, but none was to be found. He rode home, but
the singing had so deeply touched his heart, that every day he went out into the forest and listened to it.

Once when he was thus standing behind a tree, he saw that an enchantress came there, and he heard
how she cried, "If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I too will try my fortune". thought he, and the
next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down
your hair". Immediately the hair fell down and the king's son climbed up. At first Rapunzel was terribly
frightened when a man, such as her eyes had never yet beheld, came to her. But the king's son began to
talk to her quite like a friend, and told her that his heart had been so stirred that it had let him have no
rest, and he had been forced to see her. Then rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would
take him for her husband, and she saw that he was young and handsome, she thought, he will love me
more than old dame gothic does. And she said yes, and laid her hand in his. She said, I will willingly go
away with you, but I do not know how to get down. Bring with you a skein of silk every time that you
come, and I will weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready I will descend, and you will take me on
your horse. They agreed that until that time he should come to her every evening, for the old woman
came by day. The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her, tell me, how it
happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young king's son - he is with me in a
moment. Ah. You wicked child, cried the enchantress. What do I hear you say. I thought I had separated
you from all the world, and yet you have deceived me. In her anger she clutched rapunzel's beautiful
tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap,
they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground. And she was so pitiless that she took poor
rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.
On the same day that she cast out rapunzel, however, the enchantress fastened the braids of hair, which
she had cut off, to the hook of the window, and when the king's son came and cried, rapunzel, rapunzel,
let down your hair, she let the hair down. The king's son ascended, but instead of finding his dearest
rapunzel, he found the enchantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomous looks. Aha, she cried
mockingly, you would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest. The cat
has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well.

Rapunzel is lost to you. You will never see her again. The king's son was beside himself with pain, and in
his despair he leapt down from the tower. He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell
pierced his eyes. Then he wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries, and
did naught but lament and weep over the loss of his dear wife. Thus he roamed about in misery for
some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapunzel, with the twins to which she had given
birth, a boy and a girl, lived in wretchedness. He heard a voice, and it seemed so familiar to him that he
went towards it, and when he approached, Rapunzel knew him and fell on his neck and wept. Two of
her tears wetted his eyes and they grew clear again, and he could see with them as before. He led her to
his kingdom where he was joyfully received, and they lived for a long time afterwards, happy and
contented.oat upside down.

18. Danau Toba

Once upon a time there was a prosperous village in a far away island called Sumatra. In northern part of
the island, lived a farmer whose name was Toba. He lived alone in a hut by a small forest. He worked on
his farmland to grow rice and vegetables that he sells to local market. Once day he wanted to catch
some fish so he went to a river and fished there. He was very surprised when he got a big fish. The fish
was as big as human being. Soon he went home and put the fish in his kitchen. He planned to cook the
fish for his dinner that night. When he got to his house that afternoon he took a bath. Then as he walked
into his bedroom after taking a bath Toba was very shocked. Do you want to know what happened?

There stood in his living room a very beautiful girl. The girl greeted him nicely. For a moment Toba was
speechless. When he could control his emotion he asked her.

‘Who are you? What’s your name? Why suddenly you are here in my house?’
‘Pardon me if I surprised you Mr. Toba, but you took me here. I was the fish that you caught in the river.
Now that I become a human being again, I would like to thank you and I will be your servant to express
my thankfulness’

‘Were you the fish?’

‘Yes, I was the fish. Look at your kitchen’.

Toba immediately rushed to his kitchen and the fish was nowhere to be seen. He saw some gold coins
instead.

‘Whose coins are these? Why there are some coins here?’

‘Those coins are mine. As I changed into human being my scales changed into gold coins’

‘Ok you can live here and work for me. Your room is over there’

‘Thank you very much Mr. Toba’

Since that day the beautiful girl lived in Toba’s house. Since she was very beautiful Toba fell in love with
her and not long after that they got married. The girl married to Toba on one condition that he would
never tell anybody about her past. Toba agreed to the condition. Several months later Toba’s wife
delivered to a baby boy. Their son was healthy. Soon he grew up into a handsome boy. Toba named him
Samosir. Unfortunately Samosir was a lazy boy. He did not want to work at all. When his father worked
hard in his rice field and farm, Samosir just slept. When he was awake he talked a lot and he ate a lot.
Toba was very disappointed with his son’s nature. He hoped that one day Samosir would change into a
diligent boy. Day in and day out but Samosir never changed.

Toba used to go to his farm and rice field early in the morning. Then at midday his wife would bring him
food. They used to eat lunch at their farm. As he was a teenager Toba and his wife tried to change his
behavior. They ordered Samosir to bring food for his father for lunch while her mother stayed at home
to do household chores. But Samosir never did his duty well. He always woke up very late. He woke up
after midday. Then one day his mother forced him to bring the food.

‘Sam, wake up. Go to the farm and bring the food for your father. He must be very tired and hungry
now’.

But Mom, I am tired and hungry too’

‘What makes you tired? You just wake up. Go now. You father needs the food’

Toba reluctantly went to the farm. But he did not go to the farm immediately. He stopped somewhere in
the street and ate the food. It was already late afternoon when he got to the farm. His father was
disappointed. Then he was angry as he realized that his son had eaten his food. He said sarcastically.

‘O, you are stupid lazy boy. You are son of a fish!’
Samosir was hurt. He went home right away and as he got home he told his mother about his father’s
words. Samosir’s mother was shocked. She was also deeply hurt.

‘O Toba. You break your promise so I cannot live with you here anymore. Now you have to accept to
consequence of what you did. Samosir, now go to the hill, find the tallest tree and climb it’

‘Why mom? What will happen?’

‘Just do it, never ask any question. Good bye’

As soon as she finished saying that suddenly the weather changed. Sunny day suddenly turned into
cloudy day. Not long after that the rain poured heavily. The rain last for several days. Consequently the
area was flooded. The whole area became a big lake. Then it was called Lake Toba and in the middle of
the lake there is an island called Samosir Island. Meanwhile Toba’s wife disappeared.

19. Candi Prambanan

In the old days of Java Island, in a region called Prambanan, lies two kingdom. Kingdom of Pengging and
Kraton Boko. Pengging kingdom is gifted with a fertile and get prosperous. The kingdom is lead by a wise
king named Prabu Damar Moyo and has a male son named Raden Bandung Bondowoso while Kraton
Boko is a kingdom that obey under the rules of Pengging. The Boko king is very cruel, he is strong and
tall, like a giant. The people of Boko always afraid of the kings anger. Although the king were not
handsome, he has a very beautiful daughter called Princess Roro Jongrang.

One day, the king of Boko wants to rebels against the Pengging. Lead by the Boko prime minister, the
giant race, Gopolo, the Boko army is prepared to announce the war between Boko and Pengging. They
even raid its own people's properties to support the campaign.

Fierce war happens in the borders of the Pengging teritorial mark. Many victims were falling on both
sides and people Pengging be suffering because of war, many people hunger and poverty. Knowing his
people suffer and have many victims soldiers who died in the borders, then Prabu Damar Moyo sent his
son Raden Bondowoso go to war against King Boko. The young Bondowoso is able to defeat king Boko.
Seeing the king died, then Prime minister Gupolo escape. Raden Bondowoso pursue Patih Gupolo to
Kraton Boko.

After reaching Kraton Boko, Patih Gupolo reported on Princess Roro Jonggrang that his father had been
lost in the battlefield, by a knight named Raden Bandung Pengging Bondowoso. Princess Loro Jonggrang
wept, saddened his heart because his father had been killed on the battlefield. Raden at Kraton Boko
Bondowoso arrived, soom he troubled to see Puteri Raden Bondowoso Loro Jonggrang beautiful, so he
wanted to marry Princess Loro Jonggrang as his wife.

As the Boko kingdom is lost in the rebels, and o save her fathers kingdom, the Loro Puteri Raden
Jonggrang accept the princes, with some request. She did not want to marry Bondowoso because he
had killed his father. To reject the proposal Raden Bondowoso, then Princess Loro Jonggrang have a
strategy. The first request, Princess Loro Jonggrang asked for Jalatunda wells (very deep well) while the
second request, asked for him to make 1000 temples in one night.

Raden Bandung Bondowoso agreed. Raden Bondowoso Immediately make Jalatunda wells and after so
he called Princess Roro Jonggrang to see the well. She trick the prince and send him down. She ask
Boko's prime minister to close the well with heavy rocks so that the prince could not reach the top of
the well. Raden Bondowoso is a tough man, he is also smart. Its not a longtime before he was able to
come out from the wells. He was very angry to the princess, but soon after meet the princess, he falls
again with the beauty of the princess

She ask Raden Bondowoso the second request, to make 1000 temples in 1 night. Bondowoso then
command his workers from genie tribe to help him build the 1000 temple. The 1000 temples are
building up, one by one with the help of the genie tribes. The princess wants to sabotage the building of
the temples. She asks her servants to pound the rice pounding tools and also burns lots of paddy's straw

Because of it, the roosters crowed. The genie take a lookto the sky and its brighter in the east. The
leader of the genie reported to Bondowoso that they have stopped to make the temple because the
morning has arrived. Princess Roro Jonggrang told to count the temples and its only 999 temples, not
1000.

So, Bondowoso won't be able to marry the princess because he failed to complete the request. Being
deceived and tricked, Raden Bondowoso angry and curse Princess Roro Jonggrang. "It's missing one, and
you that should fit the numbers". The princess is soon turned into a stone statue; it is exist in the heart
of the Prambanan temples until now.

20. Damar Wulan

Damar Wulan was born in the village of Paluh Amba, not far from the capital city of Majapahit. He was
the son of Udara, the former prime minister of Majapahit. Since his father had retired his family live in a
quiet and prosperous village outside the capital. Damar was a smart boy so he could easily learned the
lessons his father taught him. He learned martial art, religion, politics, and literature. He was very good
at all those subjects. When his father thought that he is mature enough, he asked Damar to find job in
Majapahit. He told Damar to apply for a job at the Prime Minister's office. He hoped that his close
relation with the new prime minister would help him get the prime minister's attention. Furthermore
Damar was a smart boy so his father was sure Damar was capable to do any job.

Damar was very confident he would get a good position at the prime minister's office. Early morning he
left his village. At midday he got to Majapahit and he directly went to the prime minister's house. Prime
Minister Logender was his name. The guards sarcastically questioned him when he told them he would
see the prime minister.

'Who do you think you are?'

'I am Damar Wulan. I am the son of the former prime minister Udara. My father told me to see the
prime minister here'

'If you think you can impress us by telling us about your father, you are completely wrong poor boy. The
son of a prime minister would never go anywhere on foot'

'But, that's true. My father told me to find job here'

'Listen poor boy, the prime minister is a very busy person. He does not have time for job seeker like you.
But if you need a job, there is a vacant position here. Let me report my chief'

Then the soldier reported to his superior. After that someone called Damar to get into the commander's
chamber. He told Damar that the prime minister's office needed several boys to take care of the horses.
Damar was surprised because he expected clerical job but then he accepted the offer. Since that day he
lived in a simple hut behind the prime minister's house.

Damar did a good job so his superior was satisfied with him. He was also very sociable. Soon he had a
good relationship with the prime minister and his family. The prime minister had two sons - Layang Seto
and Layang Kumitir and a daughter - Anjasmoro. His sons were very arrogant and lazy. They treated
Damar cruelly. They wanted Damar to do whatever they want. Every body hated them but nobody dare
to express their feeling. Anjasmoro, on the other hand, liked Damar very much. Gradually she fell in love
to Damar. So did Damar. They had a secret love. When Layang Seto and Layang Kumitir knew what
happened to Damar and Anjasmoro, they were very angry. They treated Damar more and more cruelly.

At the time the kingdom of Majapahit faced a very serious problem because of the rebellion of Menak
Jinggo. He was a half brother of the Queen Kecono Wungu. He was a prince of Majapahit and a highly
respected general of the Majapahit army. For his great achievement for his country his father appointed
him as the ruler for the kingdom of Blambangan, a vassal state under Majapahit. When his father passed
away he was sure that he would become the successor. But he was very disappointed when his father
appointed his sister instead. He thought that he was more capable than Kencono Wungu so he rebelled.

Menak Jinggo proved to be a good general. Under his leadership the Blambangan army could win
several battles with Majapahit army. The territory of Majapahit one by one fell to Blambangan. At the
time the morale of the Majapahit army was already down. They were not sure that they could win the
war. So the queen and the prime minister met everyday to discuss the worsening situation. Some weeks
went by but still they did not have any ideas to solve the problem. Every report they received about the
war was only about the defeat of the Majapahit army.

Prime Minister Logender was shocked when his wife reported to him about the affair of Anjasmoro and
Damar Wulan. For a highly respected person like him, it was a very serious blow to his ego. He was a
very respectable person while his daughter dated with a poor boy. It was a serious humiliation. He could
not accept it. This fact made him very angry. He thought very hard to find a solution. Suddenly an idea
struck his sharp mind when he was meditating at midnight.

Early in the morning he went to the palace and asked the queen for an audience. Then he explained his
plan.

'Your Majesty, last night I had an idea'

'Tell me about it'

'Our army could not win because we apply a wrong strategy. The Blambangan army is very good at a
frontal open warfare like that. Furthermore our army's morale is now down. So we have to avoid open
warfare. Since now on we have to launch a new tactics of secret operation. We must send a small army
unit to kill Menak Jinggo secretly'

'Who will do that?'

'I have a body guard. His skill in martial art is excellent. He is very capable at individual fight. So he is
ready for this duty. I am sure he is the right person'

'OK, I think you are right. Send him as soon as possible to Blambangan. If he can do his job well I will give
him great reward'

When Logender got home he called Damar Wulan immediately. He asked him about his martial art skill.
Damar said he had mastered some fighting skill. His father had trained him Pencak Silat, the Indonesian
martial art. As a result, he was very skillful at using sword, lance, as well as empty hand fighting
technique. Then Logender asked him to fight both Layang Seto and Layang Kumitir. Both of them fought
emotionally since they hated Damar very much. But Damar was smart, skillful, strong and tough. In just
several minutes he could beat both of them without difficulty. Logender was angry but also satisfied
since he found a way to get rid of both problems - his home and his country.
'Damar, you are a great fighter. I am very proud of you. And that's why you will receive a great honor to
fight for your country. Now there is a rebellion in Majapahit. The king of Blambangan has done a crime.
His name is Menak Jinggo. Find him in his palace and Blambangan and kill him. Are you ready?'

'I am ready any time Sir'

'Good. Today you have to prepare everything and tomorrow you must leave for Blambangan secretly.
Do not tell any one about this duty. Not even Anjasmoro. Don't be afraid because the Majapahit army
will fully support you. They will back you and provide all your needs. When you can kill Menak Jinggo
behead him and bring his head here. If you can do this job well you will be promoted to a high position
as the commander of Majapahit army'

'Yes, Sir. I am very glad to receive this order. I will do my best'

The next day, very early in the morning Damar Wulan left Majapahit alone. Meanwhile Prime Minister
Logender had implemented his own plan. He prepared a small army unit under the leadership of his two
sons. They went behind Damar in a distant so that Damar did not notice them. They went secretly so no
one knew it. Their task was not to protect Damar but to kill him and seize the head of Menak Jinggo if he
could kill Menak Jinggo. But if Damar was killed then they had nothing to do.

Several days later Damar Wulan arrived in Blambangan. The Majapahit army kept on spying on him.
They were surprised to see Damar did not directly attack the palace. He applied for a job instead. Once
again he was accepted to work in the palace to take care of the horses. Everybody including the king
Menak Jinggo liked him because he was very polite and he did his job well. He was also very handsome
that two of the king's wife fell in love with him. Waito and Puyengan were the wives of King Menak
Jinggo.

As everybody trusted him, it was easy for Damar to search the palace. He knew where Menak Jinggo
lived. One night he secretly jumped the palace wall to kill the king. Finally he was inside the king's
bedroom. But unfortunately the king was ready to welcome him. A small army unit was there to arrest
him. He was no match for Menak Jinggo. But Menak Jinggo was a smart person. He did not kill Damar
instantly. He wanted to gather information from him. So he ordered his guards.

'Don't kill him. Let him alive, treat him well. I will question him tomorrow'.

'Yes, Your Majesty'

He ordered his men to treat him well. He even let Waito and Puyengan to see Damar. By doing so he
hoped that Damar would give him valuable information. But Damar was also a smart person. He dated
Waito and Puyengan and he asked them the way to kill Menak Jinggo. Since the two women loved
Damar they revealed a secret.

'Nobody can hurt him. He is a tough guy and he is protected by god. God gave him a secret weapon
called Wesi Kuning'
'What is that?'

'That's a golden amulet. It is just a small amulet, as small as a thumb but it is very powerful. Its shape is
like a stick. It is stored in his bedroom'

'He is a dangerous man. We have to stop him. Could you help me find his amulet?

'I will help you if you marry me'

'Sure I will marry both of you as soon as I can arrest him'

When their turn to amuse the king arrived Waito and Puyengan could get into the kings chamber. They
used that opportunity to steal the amulet. Then they gave it to Damar Wulan. Menak Jinggo did not
realize their conspiracy. When the night was very quiet they opened the door for Damar Wulan. There
was a fight but it was too late for Menak Jinggo. The sudden attack did not give him much chance to
survive. Consequently Damar could beat his enemy and Menak Jinggo was beheaded.

Damar Wulan immediately left Blambangan palace that night while promising Waito and Puyengan to
be back after he received the rewa.

21. Hansel and Gretel

Once upon a time a very poor woodcutter lived in a tiny cottage in the forest with his two children,
Hansel and Gretel. His second wife often ill-treated the children and was forever nagging the
woodcutter.

"There is not enough food in the house for us all. There are too many mouths to feed! We must get rid
of the two brats," she declared. And she kept on trying to persuade her husband to abandon his children
in the forest.

"Take them miles from home, so far that they can never find their way back! Maybe someone will find
them and give them a home." The downcast woodcutter didn't know what to do. Hansel who, one
evening, had overheard his parents' conversation, comforted Gretel.

"Don't worry! If they do leave us in the forest, we'll find the way home," he said. And slipping out of the
house he filled his pockets with little white pebbles, then went back to bed.
All night long, the woodcutter's wife harped on and on at her husband till, at dawn, he led Hansel and
Gretel away into the forest. But as they went into the depths of the trees, Hansel dropped a little white
pebble here and there on the mossy green ground. At a certain point, the two children found they really
were alone: the woodcutter had plucked up enough courage to desert them, had mumbled an excuse
and was gone.

Night fell but the woodcutter did not return. Gretel began to sob bitterly. Hansel too felt scared but he
tried to hide his feelings and comfort his sister.

"Don't cry, trust me! I swear I'll take you home even if Father doesn't come back for us!" Luckily the
moon was full that night and Hansel waited till its cold light filtered through the trees.

"Now give me your hand!" he said. "We'll get home safely, you'll see!" The tiny white pebbles gleamed
in the moonlight, and the children found their way home. They crept through a half open window,
without wakening their parents. Cold, tired but thankful to be home again, they slipped into bed.

Next day, when their stepmother discovered that Hansel and Gretel had returned, she went into a rage.
Stifling her anger in front of the children, she locked her bedroom door, reproaching her husband for
failing to carry out her orders. The weak woodcutter protested, torn as he was between shame and fear
of disobeying his cruel wife. The wicked stepmother kept Hansel and Gretel under lock and key all day
with nothing for supper but a sip of water and some hard bread. All night, husband and wife quarreled,
and when dawn came, the woodcutter led the children out into the forest.

Hansel, however, had not eaten his bread, and as he walked through the trees, he left a trail of crumbs
behind him to mark the way. But the little boy had forgotten about the hungry birds that lived in the
forest. When they saw him, they flew along behind and in no time at all, had eaten all the crumbs.
Again, with a lame excuse, the woodcutter left his two children by themselves.

"I've left a trail, like last time!" Hansel whispered to Gretel, consolingly. But when night fell, they saw to
their horror, that all the crumbs had gone.

"I'm frightened!" wept Gretel bitterly. "I'm cold and hungry and I want to go home!"

"Don't be afraid. I'm here to look after you!" Hansel tried to encourage his sister, but he too shivered
when he glimpsed frightening shadows and evil eyes around them in the darkness. All night the two
children huddled together for warmth at the foot of a large tree.

When dawn broke, they started to wander about the forest, seeking a path, but all hope soon faded.
They were well and truly lost. On they walked and walked, till suddenly they came upon a strange
cottage in the middle of a glade.

"This is chocolate!" gasped Hansel as he broke a lump of plaster from the wall.

"And this is icing!" exclaimed Gretel, putting another piece of wall in her mouth. Starving but delighted,
the children began to eat pieces of candy broken off the cottage.
"Isn't this delicious?" said Gretel, with her mouth full. She had never tasted anything so nice.

"We'll stay here," Hansel declared, munching a bit of nougat. They were just about to try a piece of the
biscuit door when it quietly swung open.

"Well, well!" said an old woman, peering out with a crafty look. "And haven't you children a sweet
tooth?"

"Come in! Come in, you've nothing to fear!" went on the old woman. Unluckily for Hansel and Gretel,
however, the sugar candy cottage belonged to an old witch, her trap for catching unwary victims. The
two children had come to a really nasty place.

"You're nothing but skin and bones!" said the witch, locking Hansel into a cage. I shall fatten you up and
eat you!"

"You can do the housework," she told Gretel grimly, "then I'll make a meal of you too!" As luck would
have it, the witch had very bad eyesight, an when Gretel smeared butter on her glasses, she could see
even less.

"Let me feel your finger!" said the witch to Hansel every day to check if he was getting any fatter. Now,
Gretel had brought her brother a chicken bone, and when the witch went to touch his finger, Hansel
held out the bone.

"You're still much too thin!" she complained. When will you become plump?" One day the witch grew
tired of waiting.

"Light the oven," she told Gretel. "We're going to have a tasty roasted boy today!" A little later, hungry
and impatient, she went on: "Run and see if the oven is hot enough." Gretel returned, whimpering: "I
can't tell if it is hot enough or not." Angrily, the witch screamed at the little girl: "Useless child! All right,
I'll see for myself." But when the witch bent down to peer inside the oven and check the heat, Gretel
gave her a tremendous push and slammed the oven door shut. The witch had come to a fit and proper
end. Gretel ran to set her brother free and they made quite sure that the oven door was tightly shut
behind the witch. Indeed, just to be on the safe side, they fastened it firmly with a large padlock. Then
they stayed for several days to eat some more of the house, till they discovered amongst the witch's
belongings, a huge chocolate egg. Inside lay a casket of gold coins.

"The witch is now burnt to a cinder," said Hansel, "so we'll take this treasure with us." They filled a large
basket with food and set off into the forest to search for the way home. This time, luck was with them,
and on the second day, they saw their father come out of the house towards them, weeping.

"Your stepmother is dead. Come home with me now, my dear children!" The two children hugged the
woodcutter.

"Promise you'll never ever desert us again," said Gretel, throwing her arms round her father's neck.
Hansel opened the casket.
"Look, Father! We're rich now . . . You'll never have to chop wood again."

And they all lived happily together ever after.

Tugas Bahasa Inggris

(Fairy Tale)

Kelas IX-E

Anggota kelompok:
 Tugas IPS

EEC (European Econimic Community)

Nama :

Dyah Wulan Adiningtyas

Kelas IX-E