Long time ago in the island of Java there was a kingdom of Kediri.

The king was

Raden Putra. He was a rich and powerful king. He liked cock fighting. One of his
wives told him that the queen had put poison in his food. The king was very
angry. Without thinking deeply and without checking this information, he
immediately ordered his soldiers to bring the queen to a wood and kill her. Soon the
soldiers took her to the wood. But when they were there the soldiers took a pity on
her. They did not want to kill her because she was a kind and wise queen and at
that time she was pregnant. So they built a house and let the queen live
there. Then they brought back to palace a deer’s heart to show the king that they
had killed her.
Several months later the queen gave birth to a baby boy. He was a healthy and
handsome boy. His name was Cinde Laras. Then he grew up to be a strong and
smart boy. He liked to go to the wood. One day he found an egg. He brought it
home and then when it hatched it became a cock. Like his father, Cinde Laras like
cock fighting. He often went to neighboring villages to play cock fighting. His cock
was a strong cock so it won all fight. He became famous. Everybody in the whole
kingdom knew him and his cock.
Finally the news of Cinde Laras and his cock reached the king. He invited Cinde
Laras to palace for a cock fight. So Cinde Laras came to the palace. In a fight his
cock could easily beat the king’s cock. Everybody was surprised. They were even
more surprised when Cinde Laras’ cock crowed. It was a strange crow.
‘Cockledodo, I am the cock of Cinde Laras, who lived in the wood, the son of Raden
Putra’.
The king was very surprised. He questioned Cinde Laras immediately. Cinde Laras
told him that he was the son of the queen who now lived in the wood. After that the
king went to see the queen in the wood. She told him that she was a victim of
palace politics.
The King regretted his unwise decision. Then he brought them back to palace and
he punished to his evil wife. Later on Cinde Laras would replace him as the king of
Kediri.