TANGKUBAN PERAHU

A long time ago, there was a young woman who had nice parents. Her dad was a regular human being, but her mum was a witch. Because of this, she would never get old. There was a man who had different parents also. They met each other, and after a while they fell in love and got married.

After a year, the girl had a baby boy. They really loved their son. One day, the father took his son to go hunting for a deer using a bow and narrow. Accidentally, the son shot the arrow in the wrong direction and killed his own father. He went crazy, and when he told his mother about this, she was really mad with him. His mother hit him on the head with a rock and kicked him out of the house.


Several years later, the mother finally found another man. They fell in love. The man wanted to marry her. After the man took a shower, he asked her to brush his hair. While she was brushing his hair, she saw a mark on his head. She asked him what happened since he had a mark on his head. He said, “I was hit by my mother”. She really was disturbed by this, but she just kept quiet because she knew that was her own son. Her son still didn’t know that she was his own mother. She decided not to marry him, but the man kept forcing her to marry him.

Finally, she made a deal with the man. The deal was she would marry him, but first he had to build a ship and it needed to be done before the sun rose. He started building the ship. He built it by himself because he had half of her witch power. When she found out that the ship would be done soon, and it would be done before sunrise, she woke all the chickens and made the chickens start crowing. When the son heard the crow of the chickens, he was really sad because he thought he hadn’t finished the ship before the sun rose. He realized that he was not going to marry her, so he kicked the ship with all his power. They ended up going separate ways.

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WHY DO HAWKS HUNT CHICKS?

Once upon a time, a hawk fell in love with a hen. The hawk flew down from the sky and asked the hen, “Won’t you marry me?”

The hen loved the brave, strong hawk and wished to marry him. But she said, “I can’t fly as high as you can. If you give me time, I may learn to fly as high as you. Then we can fly together”.

The hawk agreed. Before he went away, he gave the hen a ring. ‘This is to show that you have promised to marry me”, said the hawk.


It so happened that the hen had already promised to marry a rooster. So, when the rooster saw the ring, he became very angry. “Throw that ring away at once!” shouted the roster. Then she was so frightened at the rooster’s anger that she threw away the ring immediately.

When the hawk came a few months later, the hen told him the truth. The hawk was so furious that he cursed the hen. “Why didn’t you tell me earlier? Now, you’ll always be starching the earth, and I’ll always be flying above to catch your children,” said the hawk.

The curse seems to have come true.

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BATARA KALA

Batara Kala was an evil giant. He always killed people, especially children. His hair was made from fire. Everybody was frightened.

One day, Batara Guru, the chief god invited all the gods and goddesses to drink sacred water in the paradise. The water was called Tirta Amertasan. It means “The water of immortality”.


Batara Kala was not invited because he was evil. Then, secretly, he flew into the Paradise and stole some of water. Batara Surya, the god of sun, Batara Chandra, the goddess of moon knew what he did. Immediately both of them reported to Batara Vishnu, the keeper god god of the universe.

Then Batara Vishnu took his fatal weapon, Cakra and shot it to Batara Kala.

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GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS

Once upon a time, there were three bears, a papa bear, a mama bear and a baby bear. Once day, the three bears sat down to breakfast, “This porridge is too hot”, said baby bear. “Let’s go for a walk”, said mama bear, “When we come back, our porridge will be just right”.

Along come goldilocks. She walked in to the house. She saw three bowls of porridge. “This is too hot”, said goldilocks. “This is too cold”, said goldilocks. “This is just right”, said goldilocks and she ate it all up.


Then goldilocks went into living room. She saw three chairs. “This is too hard”, said goldilocks. Goldilocks felt tired. She went to the bedroom. She saw three beds. “This bed is too hard, this bed is too soft”, said goldilocks. And she fell fast a sleep.

The three bears came home. They went into the kitchen. “Someone has been eating my porridge”, said papa bear. The three bears went into the living room. “Someone has been sitting in my chair!” said papa bear. And three bears went into the bed room. “Someone has been sleeping in my bed and here she is!”

Goldilocks woke up. She saw three angry bears looking at her. Goldilocks jumped out of bed. She ran out of the house. And she never came back again.

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THE LION AND THE MOUSE

Once when a lion was sleep, a little mouse began running up and down upon him, this soon awoke the lion, which placed his huge paw upon the mouse, opened his big jaws to swallow him.

“Pardon, O King”, cried the little mouse, “forgive me this time, I shall never forget it. Who knows I may able to do you a good turn some of these days?” The lion was so tickled at the idea of the mouse being able to help him. Then he lifted up his paw and let him go.


One day the lion was caught in a trap. Some hunters who wanted to carry him alive to the king, tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him in. just then the little mouse happened to pass by and see the sad plight in which the lion was. The little mouse went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the king of the beasts. Soon after the little mouse had finished gnawing away the ropes, he asked the lion to run away.

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ALI BABA

Once upon a time there were 40 thieves who put their stolen money and treasures in a cave saying to the cave entrance, “Open sesame!” A poor person saw them while they were doing that, so he heard the opening word. After they left he went towards the cave and opened it. Suddenly he found a very large quantity of money and golden treasures. He took some of it and went back home.

After that he became a rich man and his brother wanted to know how he became rich.


One day his brother followed him to solve that mystery. Next day the brother went back to the cave and opened it. He found a lot of money but when he tried to get out he could not. After a few minutes the thieves came and saw the brother.

The boss asked him how he knew about the cave so he told them the story. They killed the brother and went to find Ali Baba’s house.

The next morning the thieves hide in the big jars, and went to Ali Baba’s house. The boss and two of his men pretended that they were merchants Ali Baba invited them to lunch.

After lunch they took a rest. The house maid went out and found 40 thieves in the jars, so she boiled hot oil and poured it on their heads to kill them.

After that Ali Baba lived in happiness forever.

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THE CAT, FROG AND CAMEL

Once upon a time, a cat, a frog and a camel gathered near an oasis in a desert. They wanted to appoint their leader.

It was not easy for them to do that because each of them wanted to be the leader. They all most had a fight because of this.


Luckily the camel had a bright idea. He proposed that whoever because the oldest could be the leader. All agreed too this idea. The cat told his story first. “When I was born, the earth was still soft. I had to walk very carefully so that I did not sink into the ground. That’s why I’m still very careful about the way I walk”.

“Oh! That’s nothing”, explained the frog. “I’m sure I’m the oldest. When I was born, the earth was very hot. It was too hot to walk on. The only way to move around was to jump. That’s why I still jump rather than walk”.

The camel was very amused. “When I was born”, he told his friends. “The earth had not yet been made. There way only the sky and a lot of sand everywhere. When my father died, there was no place to bury him, so I had to carry him on my back. That’s why my back is crocked. Of course, it’s very useful as I can keep food and water in it”.

On hearing what the camel said, the cat and the frog had to agree that he was the oldest. They made him their leader.

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