The Legend of Crying Stone
Nurul Muslimah X-B AKL
In a small village, a girl lives with her mother. The girl is very beautiful. Every
day, she puts on make-up and wears her best clothes. She doesn't like to help her
mother work in the field. The girl is very lazy.
One day, the mother asks the girl to accompany her to the market to buy some
food. At first, the girl refuses, but the mother persuades her by saying they are
going to buy new clothes. The girl finally agrees, but she asks her mother to walk
behind her. She doesn't want to walk side by side with her mother.
Although her mother is very sad, she agrees to walk behind her daughter. On the
way to the market, everybody admires the girl's beauty. They are also curious
about the old woman with a simple dress walking behind the beautiful girl. The girl
and her mother look very different!
"Hello, pretty lady. Who is the woman behind you?" they ask.
“She is my servant,” answers the girl.
The mother is very sad, but she doesn't say anything. The girl and the mother meet
other people.
"Hello, beauty. Who is the woman behind you?" they ask again.
Again, the girl answers that her mother is her servant.
She always says that her mother is her servant every time they meet people. At last,
the mother can't bear the pain anymore.
She prays to God to punish her daughter. God answers her prayer. Slowly, the girl's
legs turn into stone. The process continues to the upper part of the girl's body. The
girl panics.
"Mother, please forgive me!" she cries and asks her mother to forgive her.
But it's too late. Her whole body finally becomes a big stone. To this day, people
can still see tears falling from the stone. People then call it the crying stone, or in
Indonesian, "batu menangis."
