Folklore And Legends
FOLKLORE OF THE STUPPER AND THE NIGHT PRINCESS

Once upon a time, there lived a young man named Stirrer. He lived in a small house owned by his parents. The old man had long since died. While living, the father often owes a debt to a village chief named Pak Raje. Mr. Raje is a rich man, yet evil and cunning. The debt of the Stripper's father never paid off because Mr. Raje always doubled it. Now, the two parents of the chopsticks are gone. However, his father's debts were not repaid.

As a child who is devoted to parents and trying to return the favor to Mr. Raje, the Chopsticks guarding the rice fields owned by Mr. Raje that are rolling on it have begun to turn yellow. He must take care of it day and night.

One day, Mr. Raje asks the Chopsticks to come to his house. He wants to talk about the task that must be done by the Chopsticks following the rules. The chopsticks came half-running to face Mr. Raje.

"Hi Chopsticks, go and guard my fields! I won't pay you a dime because your father still owes me" said Mr. Raje. "Okay, sir" replied the Stalker.

"Oh yeah, one more thing you should remember. If my fields are broken, I will support you. You have to pay for all the damage!" said Mr. Raje back with his reigning style. In fact, Mr. Raje knows, most likely his rice fields can be entered by wild pigs that can damage it.

"Okay sir," The chopsticks responded without commenting.

The gaggle leaves Mr. Raje's luxurious home. He immediately carried out his master's orders to answer the rice fields that would soon harvest. He worked day and night non-stop. During the day, the Chopsticks reap rice, while at night he keeps the rice fields from being damaged by wild boars. This makes the chopper can fall asleep for a while in the morning.

Six days have been passed smoothly guarding the rice fields of Mr. Raje. On the seventh day, while sitting in the saung watching the rice field of Pak Raje, a boar entered the rice field of his master.

Quickly, the chopper threw the spear he brought towards the boar. Finally, there was the sound of wild boar screeches in pain. Turns out, the chopsticks' eyes hit the boar's feet. The chopsticks ran towards the injured boar. But the boar has disappeared. There were only drops of blood from the boar's body scattered along the way.

Then, the chopsticks followed the trail of the blood droplets into the forest. He also wanted to know where the wild boars were hiding. "Well, where are those boars hiding? I have to find her. If I don't find it, it's certain that Mr. Raje's paddy field will be destroyed again" the chopper said in his heart.

As he entered the forest, the chopsticks were shocked by the change of the pig he injured into a beautiful princess. He was silent for a while because he did not believe what he saw.

"O beautiful princess, were you the wounded pig?" ask Chopsticks.

"True, I was the one who was transformed into a pig. My name is Night Princess" said the Night Princess as she groaned in pain.

"I'm sorry Princess. I have hurt you. Let me help treat the wound on your leg," said the chopper offered to help.

The chopsticks slowly cleared away the wounds and blood flowing at the Night Princess's feet. Then, with the help of reeds (clustered plants, rooted fibers, the trunk is broad, hollow, and hard) which is the size of one cubit, the Chopsticks pull out the spear eyes that pierced the feet of the Night Princess. "Auuuu...," cried the Night Princess in pain.

"Wait a minute here, Princess! I'm going to find the clumpy leaves to stop your bleeding" said the chopsticks.

The next day, the Night Princess was able to walk back. As a sign of gratitude he gave some packages containing turmeric, nyatoh fruit, simple leaves, and jering fruit to the Chopsticks.

"You can just open this package after arriving home" the princess said.

The chopsticks finally returned home and obeyed the Night Princess's message. Upon arriving at home, he immediately opened the package earlier. How surprised he was, it turned out that the package containing spices turned into gold, diamonds, gems, and diamonds.

"What's going on? The spices turned into gold, diamonds, gems, and diamonds," cried the Clerk in disbelief. The gaggle is now a rich man.

Later, he went to Mr. Raje's house to pay all the debts of his late father. In addition, he was also free from the arbitrary actions of Mr. Raje who hired him day and night.

Mr. Raje is astonished to see the Chopsticks can pay off the debts of his late father who amounted to a large amount. "Where did you get this much money from the chopper? You may have stolen yes. I don't want to accept ill-gotten possessions" said Mr. Raje in a huff.

"Sorry sir, I have never stolen from anyone. I got it with halal. There was a beautiful daughter who kindly gave all this to me, sir," said the Chopsticks explained.

Finally, the Stalker explains the events of that night. He told Mr. Raje everything until he got the package from the Night Princess whose contents had been turned into valuables. Apparently Mr. Raje was also interested in obtaining treasures in an easy way.

Mr. Raje secretly intends to follow in the footsteps ever done. He went out in the middle of the night to answer his rice fields and then spear the wild boar that went into the rice fields. After that, Mr. Raje followed the injured pig and went into the forest. In the woods, he treats a wounded boar. Due to not being used to guard the night, Mr. Raje was stricken with drowsiness. He also fell asleep. After that what happened was not in line with expectations. Raje finally has some bad luck. It was not the Night Princess he had met after waking up from his sleep, but dozens of large pigs attacked him. He died with a broken body.

The news of Mr. Raje's death shocked his family. Mr. Raje's eldest daughter conveyed the incident to the Chopsticks. To his surprise, the chopsticks heard Mr. Raje die because he followed in his footsteps to spear a boar and then help him. The chopper came to Mr. Raje's house. There, he saw the body of Mr. Raje who was no longer intact.

Although Mr. Raje always did evil to the Chopsticks, the Chopsticks never took revenge. With good intentions, the Chopsticks try to help Mr. Raje by saying special prayers and mantras to ask Mr. Raje's life back to the Gods.

The Prayer of the Concealer was finally granted by the God. Not long after, Mr. Raje's body fused itself. Mr. Raje's wounds healed and he came back to life. Mr. Raje is ashamed of the Chopsticks because he always does evil.

"Hi kind-hearted hitchhiker, forgive me for all my wrongdoings. I have done wrong to you and your family. As my gratitude to you, marry you to my son" Mr. Raje told the Chopsticks.

A few weeks later, Chopsticks married Pak Raje's daughter. Now, Chopsticks became a wealthy man and lived happily with his wife. Even so, he is still neither arrogant nor miserly to others. Mr. Raje became a kind-hearted person and not arrogant. Even the Chopsticks asked Mr. Raje to serve as the head of the village in his place.

Moral Message: Even though we have everything, we remain humble and always help others. Because, people who are humble and helpful will get a good reply as well. Don't be arrogant and miserly.