KEBUN CERITA

To read part 1, please click  here! To read Part 2, please click here! In the next day, in the early morning, all adult man in the village had gathered in the town hall. That day, they were going to begin their journey to look for the giant. There were 3 groups. Group one would go inside the forest in the north and west of the village, the second group would go down to the river in the south, while the last group would wander along the hills in the east. All preparation had been set. Not only did they bring equipment needed, but they also bring baskets full of foods cooked by their wives. Before leaving, they said to the woman and young man that stayed in the villages to keep their eyes on each other back. They commanded them be cautious and not to forget shut all the doors and windows in the afternoon. Then, they began their journey. 3 days later, all woman, young man, and children gathered in the town hall. It is in the middle of the day, and the sun was shining

To read Part 1 click here!   “Help! Help! Help! My children are gone! Screamed the woman when realizing that her children were nowhere to be found. The neighbors coming to the house and asking what happened. “What happened? What happened? What happened to your children?” asked people when reaching her house. That woman, then told what had happened, how she had asked her children to go inside the house as the day was getting dark, how the children refused her command, and how she realized that the children had gone. People that were in the house, then, called other people in the village to help them look for the children. Few moments later, many people had gathered in the woman’s house, and they bring torch and also tool needed to search the children. That night people in village began to investigate all the side of the village and also the forest near the village. Until late of the night, they found nothing. Then, as it is almost dawn and also because they felt tired, t

Once upon a time, in a village named Soppeng (a district in South Sulawesi), there live friendly people that lived in peace.   Almost all people in that village were farmers. Every day, they went to their rice fields to cultivate their soil. One day, in a bright day, an old woman came to the village. That old woman looked very old with wrinkles on their faces and white hairs on their head. She wore “Konde” on their head. Konde is a kind of big fake hair attach on the head of woman. No one knew why that old woman came to the village, but it seemed that she looked for someplace to stay. To Read the story in Bahasa Indonesia click here! No one also knew, that the old woman was actually “Siluman”. Siluman is kind of genie that can turn its body into a human. The old woman liked to eat flesh of human, and one favorite flesh she liked is flesh of children.   No longer is it until people in the village noticed that many children in the village began to disappear after the old woman

To read story in Bahasa Indonesia  click here!   To read the English version part 1  click here! It seemed that the cupid demanded the arrow he had shot for La Kuttu back. The day came, the wedding ceremony between the rich man and the weaving girl was held. According to the tradition there, a new married couple was not allowed to do an intercourse for 40 days, and the day at which they were not allowed to do an intercourse is called “hari pantang”. Thus, the rich man and the weaving girl were not allowed to sleep in one bed.  Few days before “hari pantang” ended, the girl asked his brother to look for a fresh chicken craw. After the brother handed her the chicken craw she asked for, then she kept the craw in her room. The night when “hari pantang” had come. That night, the rich man came to the girl room to do what a husband intended to do on the night of a marriage. Before going to bed, the girl took the craw that she kept and she put the craw between her. Then she ca