The Legend of the Crying Boulder

Kalimantan Barat

In a small village long ago, a girl lived with her mother. That girl was very beautiful. Every
day she put on makeup and put on her best clothes. She didn't like helping his mother work in
the fields. The girl is very lazy.
One day, the mother asked the girl to accompany her to go to the market to buy food.
At first the girl refused, but her mother persuaded her by saying they would buy new clothes.
The girl finally agreed. But she asked her mother to walk behind her.
She didn't want to walk side by side with his mother.
Although her mother was very sad, she agreed to walk behind her daughter. On the way to
the market, everyone admired the girl's beauty.
They were also curious. Behind the beautiful girl, there was an old woman in a simple dress.
The girl and her mother looked so different!
"Hello, pretty lady. Who is the woman behind you?” they asked.
"She is my servant," replied the girl.
Her mother was very sad, but she didn't say anything. The girl and her mother met someone
else.
"Hello, beautiful. Who is the woman behind you?” they asked again.
Again, the girl replied that her own mother was her servant.
The mother tried to talk to her daughter to stop calling her a servant.
“My daughter, I am your mother. Why did you keep telling people that I was your servant?”,
the mother asked.
“Shut up! I don’t want people to associate me with you. I am so pretty while you looked very
ugly. Now, stop talking to me!”. The girl walked even faster now.
When they arrived in the market, a handsome merchant stopped them because he was
interested in the girl’ beauty.
"Hello, beautiful. I am drawn by your beauty. I hope you don’t mind if I stop you for a
while”, said the handsome merchant.
“Sure, no problem. I am so happy”, the girl smiled as she talked to the handsome merchant.

“I would like to take you to a dinner, if you don’t mind. You can take your mother with you
as well”
“Oh, don’t worry! She is not my mother. She is only my servant; you can ignore her!”
Hearing those words from her own daughter, the mother could not hold her patience
anymore.
She prays to God to punish her daughter. God answered his prayer. Slowly, the girl’s feet
turned to stone.
The process continued to the upper part of the girl’s body. The girl panicked.
“Mother, forgive me!”
“I’m really sorry Mother! I am sorry!”
She cried and asked her mother to forgive her but it was too late. Her entire body finally
became a boulder. Until now people can still see the tears falling from the stone.