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Cindelaras || East Java Folklore

Once there was a kingdom named Jenggala. Jenggala kingdom was ruled by a king named Raden Putra. Raden Putra lived with his beautiful wife, the queen of the kingdom and also with his concubine. The king’s concubine was so jealous of the life of the queen. All of her time was spent by thinking on how to get rid of the queen and become the only queen in the kingdom. One day, the desire of being a queen filled the concubine’s heart and blinded her. She was coming to the kingdom physician to set a plan to get rid of the queen. With all the wealth promised by the concubine, the physician agreed to join her. As the agreement made, the queen walked back to her room with a self-satisfied smirk on her face. Cindelaras via https://i.ytimg.com The next day, the concubine was lying unmoved in her bed screaming for help. Of course it was her trick to fool all people in the kingdom. The king that heard the scream rushed to the concubine’s room. As he checked the state of his second w

The Giant who Can't Move (on) || Indonesia Folklore

Once there lived an old widow named “Mbok Sirni” that had always wanted to have a child. Unfortunately, his husband didn’t give her children till the day he passed away. She kept praying to God, asked Him to send her a child. One day, a big giant came to her house. The big giant talked to her and said to the widow the he wanted to give her a daughter but under one condition, which was she had to give the child by the time the child grew up. The giant planned to eat the girl up. Feeling desperate because had been waiting too long, Mbok Sirni agreed with the giant offer. Then the giant gave Mbok Sirni a seed of cucumber and had her plant it. After being planted in empty area behind her small house, the sprout appeared from inside the soil and grew prolifically and it yielded lot of cucumbers. From those cucumbers, there was a cucumber that appeared to be have a color like gold and have the biggest size among all.  Mbok Sirini felt curious toward that cucumber and she took the

The Legend of Dewi Sanggalangit, "Father, I want to marry him, but..........."

Once there lived a beautiful princess named Dewi Sanggalangit. She was from a well-known kingdom located in Kediri. The princess was not only beautiful but also had a pleasant personality that made a lot of princes and kings from surrounding kingdoms wanted to make her as a wife. Unfortunately, the princess didn’t want yet to get married, and this made her parents confused. Her parents had already wanted to have their own grandchildren. Then one day, the king said to the princess. “My daughter, you have rejected so many marriage proposal from princes and kingdoms. Dot you want to get married and have a family of your own?” asked the king “Father” answered the princess, “I really don’t want to get married from now. I still enjoy of my own company right now.” “But your mother have said to me that she really wants to have a grandchild from you” said the king The princess didn’t give any respond as the king finished talking. She went silent for a moment. Then, she sai