Folklore And Legends
LEGEND OF THE ORIGIN OF TANJUNG LESUNG

Once upon a time there lived a traveler named Raden Budog. It is believed to have originated in the South Sea. Once Raden Budog dreamed of meeting a girl. Very pretty face of the girl. Raden Budog was fascinated and instantly fell in love. He then decided to go back to wandering to find the existence of the beautiful-looking girl.

Riding on his favorite horse, Raden Budog headed north. His dog accompanied his departure. They continued to head north until they arrived at Mount Walang. At that place Raden Budog saddle was torn until he was no longer riding a horse. Raden Budog leads his horse and his dog stays faithful to accompany the odyssey of Raden Budog. They finally arrived at Cawar beach. After a tiring journey, Raden Budog intends to bathe on the beautiful beach.

After bathing and cleaning himself, Raden Budog intends to continue his journey back. He took the horse and dog to walk again. However, two animals that are usually very loyal to him are like reluctant to leave the beach Cawar. The two were silent and disobeyed Raden Budog's orders. After repeated invitations from his horse and dog, Raden Budog became angry. He cursed the two animals into a rock.

The curse of Raden Budog is manifest in reality. The horse and dog became a rock that was silent on the beach Cawar.

Raden Budog continued his journey on foot. Through various obstacles and obstacles that he met in the middle of the journey. Then he arrived at a village after passing through a river that overflowed with flood water.

Shahdan, in the village that visited Raden Budog lived a widow named Nyi Siti. She has a beautiful daughter with a beautiful face. Sri Poh Haci.

Sri Poh Haci every day pounding rice using a queue and mortar. The antan was knocked into the dimple to produce a certain rhythm that sounds melodious in the ear. Sri Poh Haci's actions invited other girls to imitate his actions. They pounded the rice in the same way as Sri Poh Haci did. The girls usually ask Sri Poh Haci to lead until finally created a fun game that they named ngagondang. The villagers were very fond of the game. Before they planted rice, they preceded it with a game of ngagondang first. However, they have a taboo, which is not to play on Friday.

When Raden Budog arrived in the village it happened that the game was being played. Raden Budog was very interested when he heard that. He also came closer. He fell asleep when he saw one of the dimples hitters. His face was very similar to the face of the woman he saw in his dreams. The woman was none other than Sri Poh Haci.

Raden Budog then went to Sri Poh Haci's house and met the beautiful-looking woman. His love for Sri Poh Haci. When Sri Poh Had also expressed love for Raden Budog, Raden Budog then came to Nyi Siti to propose to Sri Poh Haci.

Raden Budog and Sri Poh Haci are married. Their marriage was simple. All the villagers came to attend and also rejoiced over the wedding. Raden Budog lived in the village.

After his marriage, Sri Poh Haci continued to lead the ngagondang. Her husband not only allowed it, but also participated in the game of hitting the queue on the dimple rhythmically. In fact, Raden Budog is so fond of the game that he seemed to know no time to play it. It felt like every moment he was engrossed in a struggle. He was still reckless to play even though his wife, in-laws, and other people had reminded him. His ears were so clogged that he did not listen to other people's warnings.

Raden Budog is really stubborn, hard to advise. When Friday came, Sri Poh Haci reminded her husband, "My husband, Friday is a day that is saved by villagers. You better not hang on first."

Raden Budog was silent, but his desire to play the pestle on the dimple to cause rhythm could not be prevented.

Nyi Siti was worried about her daughter-in-law as well. Nyi Siti also reminded Raden Budog not to hang on that Friday. In fact, the village elder also reminded Raden Budog. "You must respect the customs and also the restrictions that apply in our village. You may walk on other days, but do not do it on Friday. Friday is a day of abstinence for villagers to ngagondang. May it be a taboo for you to play on this Friday:'

Although many people have reminded him, Raden Budog was still adamant to ngagondang. The warnings of his wife, in-laws, and even village elders were not considered at all. For him, there was no abstinence for him to satisfy his pleasure of playing the queue on the dimple. Any day is a free day for him to stay.

That Friday, Raden Budog was staying. He doesn't care if he just plays alone. He was even more excited by jumping up and down when hitting the queue on the dimple. He hopes people will come and play with him. People just looked at him in astonishment and Raden Budog kept growing his passion for the game. He jumped there and came here while playing. His face was so happy as if very satisfied to be able to play ngagondang on that sacred Friday.

The village children came to the place where Raden Budog played ngagondang. They were very astonished to see the strange sight that was happening before them. In their view, not Raden Budog who was playing ngagondang, but a lutung!

"There's lutung playing dimples! There's a lutung playing dimples!" the children shouted, pointing.

Raden Budog who did not realize that he had turned into a lutung continued to play the queue on the dimple. More excited he played because he thought the children were fascinated by his game.

The astonishing event quickly spread. Villagers came to the place where Raden Budog was playing ngagondang. Really they were amazed to find a lutung playing dimples while jumping with joy.

"There's lutung playing dimples! There's a lutung playing dimples!"

The screams of the crowd were unabated making Raden Budog surprised. For a moment stopped the game and stared at people. Still heard there are villagers who say there are lutung playing dimples. Look at the place around it. No one plays in that place but only himself. So, why did those people mention the existence of lutungs playing dimples?

Raden Budog watched him. Both of his hands were very hairy black like a lutung fur! Similarly, with black fur on both feet. His face, full of thick black fur. So does his body. More complete his surprise when he found a long black hairy tail coming out of the back of his body.

Raden Budog has been whole turned into a langung!

After finding himself transformed into a langur, Raden Budog immediately ran from the place. He's so embarrassed. With a nimble movement, Raden Budog incense stick then climbed a tree. The climbing movement is very fast. He also hung from branch to branch and jumped from one tree to another.

"Kasarung Lutung! Kasarung Lutung!" people shouted when they saw Raden Budog's cloak jumping from one tree to another.

The screams embarrassed Raden Budog so much that he kept trying to get away from the village as far away as he entered the forest and continued to move towards the middle of the forest. He decided to stay in the forest for the next time.

Sri Poh Haci is deeply saddened to find out that. Her husband had turned into a langur. He no longer had the courage to live in his village. He secretly left his village. No matter where Raden Budog's wife went, no one knew. In fact, Nyi Siti herself did not know it. It is said, Sri Poh Haci then also transformed into Dewi Padi.

The village where the occurrence of a very surprising event was then called Lesung Village. Given its location in a headland, the village was finally called Tanjung Lesung.

Moral message: The origin of the lemongrass cape is that we should obey and respect the customs that occur in an area. Like the meaning of the proverb in which the land is stepped, there the sky is held, which means wherever we are or reside, where we live, let us obey the customs and customs that apply in the area.