Cerita legenda batu menangis

Once upon a time, there lived a mother and her daughter in a small village, in Borneo
island. The daughter was so beautiful, but she had a very bad behavior. She never helped her
mother to work. She just spent her time in front of the mirror to beautify herself and to
admire her beauty. While her mother had to work to fulfill their daily needs. She was also a
spoiled girl. She always asked everything to her mother. if her mother didn’t fulfill her want,
she would cry. This made her mother so sad, but somehow she still loved her daughter. So
she always tried to fulfill what her daughter wanted.
One day, the girl forced her mother to buy a new gown for her. At first, her mother
refused her request. She told her daughter that she didn’t have enough money. But her
daughter threatened her mother, then she fulfilled to but a new gown. Before going to the
market together, her daughter reminded her mom,”Let’s go shopping, but I don’t want to
walk beside you. You had to walk behind me, I felt embarrassed if people see me”. Even
though her mother felt really sad, she obeyed her daughter request, she did not want her
daughter feel embarrassed.
The daughter dressed beautifully while her mother wore very simple dress. Even
though they were a mother and a daughter, they looked so different. Her mother looked like
her servant. In the middle of their way to market, a man greeted them,”Hi cute girl, is she
your mother?”. he asked. “How could you think that? Of course she is not my mother, she is
my servant”, the daughter replied. Her mother was so sad to hear that. She kept silent though
her heart was crying aloud. Along the street everyone passing kept asking the girl about her
mother. And the girl always told them that the old woman behind her was her servant.
The mother had stayed patiently along the street. And finally she could not bear it to hear her
daughter’s answer. she prayed to the God,”O Lord, punish my ungrateful daughter, please!”,
she prayed. Suddenly the girl’s legs turned to be a stone immediately after the mother stopped
praying. The change came slowly. Knowing her legs turned to be a stone, the daughter
screamed.”What’s happen to my legs?”. Then she realized that she had hurt her mother’s
feeling. She cried and begged for absolution to her mother.”Mommy, Forgive me please,
mom”. She begged. The daughter kept crying. But it was too late. The whole body eventually
became a stone. The mother actually felt so sad to see her daughter. But she could not do
anything to the God’s destiny. Even though she had become a stone completely, people can
still see her tears. That is the reason why it was called Batu Menangis.
Cerita rakyat batu menangis
Pada zaman dahulu, hiduplah seorang ibu dan putrinya di sebuah desa kecil, di pulau
Kalimantan. Putrinya sangat cantik, namun ia memiliki sifat yang sangat buruk. Dia tidak
pernah membantu ibunya bekerja. Dia hanya menghabiskan waktunya di depan cermin untuk
mempercantik dirinya dan mengagumi kecantikannya. Sementara ibunya harus bekerja untuk
memenuhi kebutuhan sehari-hari. Dia juga seorang gadis yang manja. Dia selalu meminta
segala sesuatu kepada ibunya. Jika ibunya tidak memenuhi keinginannya, dia akan menangis.
Tentu ini membuat sang ibu sangat sedih, tapi biar bagaimana ibunya masih mencintai
putrinya. Jadi sang ibu selalu mencoba untuk memenuhi apa yang inginkan putrinya.
Suatu hari, gadis memaksa ibunya untuk membelikan gaun baru untuknya. Pada
awalnya, sang ibu menolak permintaannya. sang ibu mengatakan kepada anaknya bahwa ia
tidak mempunyai cukup uang. Tapi putrinya mengancam, maka Ibunya memenuhi untuk
membeli gaun baru. Sebelum pergi ke pasar bersama-sama, putrinya mengingatkan pada
ibunya, “Ayo kita pergi berbelanja bersama. Tetapi aku tidak ingin berjalan di sampingmu.
Ibu harus berjalan di belakangku, aku merasa malu jika orang melihatku”. Meskipun ibunya
merasa benar-benar sedih, sang ibu tetap memenuhi permintaannya putri, ia tidak mengingin
kanputri merasa malu.
Putrinya berpakaian sangat cantik sementara ibunya mengenakan gaun yang sangat
sederhana. Meskipun mereka adalah ibu dan anak, mereka tampak begitu berbeda. Ibunya
lebih tampak seperti pembantunya. Di tengah jalan ke pasar, seorang pria menyapamereka,
“gadis cantik, apakah dia ibumu?”. ia bertanya. “Bagaimana bisa Anda berpikir seperti itu?
Tentu saja dia bukanlah ibuku, dia adalah pembantuku”, putri itu menjawab. Ibunya sangat
sedih mendengarnya. Dia tetap diam meskipun hatinya menangis sangat keras. Sepanjang
jalan, semua orang yang melewati terus bertanya kepada putri tersebut tentang ibunya. Dan
putrinya selalu memberitahu mereka bahwa wanita tua di belakangnya adalah pembantunya.
Ibu telah bersabar sepanjang jalan. Dan akhirnya sang ibu tidak tahan lagi mendengar
jawaban putrinya. Dia berdoa kepada Tuhan, “Ya Tuhan, hukumlah putri saya tidak tahu
berterima kasih ini!”, doa sang ibu. Tiba-tiba kaki putrinya itu berubah menjadi batu seketika
setelah ibu berhenti berdoa. Perubahan terjadi secara perlahan-lahan. Mengetahui kakinya
berubah menjadi batu, putrinya pun berteriak.”Apa yang terjadi pada kakiku? “. Kemudian
dia menyadari bahwa dia telah menyakiti perasaan ibunya. Dia menangis dan memohon
untuk pengampunan kepada ibunya.”Ibu, ampuni saya, ibu “. Dia memohon. Putrinya terus
menangis. Tapi semua itu sudah terlambat. Seluruh tubuh akhirnya menjadi batu. Ibu benar-
benar merasa sangat sedih menyaksikan putrinya berubah menjadi batu. Tapi sang ibu tidak
bisa melakukan apa-apa lagi atas kehendak Tuhan. Meskipun sang putri telah menjadi batu,
orang masih bisa melihat mata airnya mengalir. Itulah alasan mengapa ia disebut Batu
Menangis.
 Lagenda Tangkuban Perahu
Once upon a time in west Java, Indonesia lived a wise king who had a beautiful
daughter.   Her name was Dayang Sumbi.  She liked weaving very much.  Once she was
weaving a cloth when one of her tool fell to the ground.  She was very tired at the time so she
was too lazy to take it.  Then she just shouted outloud.
‘Anybody there?  Bring me my tool.  I will give you special present.  If you are female,  I will
consider you as my sister.  If you are male, I will marry you
Suddenly a male dog, its name was Tumang, came.  He brought her the falling tool. 
Dayang Sumbi was very surprised.  She regretted her words but she could not deny it.  So she
had to marry Tumang and leave her father.  Then they lived in a small village.  Several
months later they had a son.  His name was Sangkuriang.  He was a handsome and healthy
boy.
Sangkuriang liked hunting very much.  He often went hunting to the wood using his
arrow.  When he went hunting Tumang always with him.  In the past there were many deer in
Java so Sangkuriang often hunted for deer.
One day  Dayang Sumbi wanted to have deer’s heart so she asked Sangkuriang to
hunt for a deer.   Then Sangkuriang went to the wood with his arrow and his faithful dog
Tumang.  But after several days in the wood Sangkuriang could not find any deer.  They were
all disappeared.  Sangkuriang was exhausted and desperate.  He did not want to disappoint
her mother so he killed Tumang.  He did not know that Tumang was his father.  At home he
gave Tumang’s heart to her mother.
But Dayang Sumbi knew that it was Tumang’s heart.  She was so angry that she could
not control her emotion.  She hit Sangkuriang at his head.  Sangkuriang was wounded.  There
was  a scar in his head.    She also repelled her son.   Sangkuriang left her mother in sadness.
Many years passed and Sangkuriang became a strong young man.  He wandered 
everywhere.     One day he arrived at his own village but he did not realized it.  There he met
Dayang Sumbi.  At the time Dayang Sumbi was given an eternal beauty by God so she stayed
young forever.  Both of them did not know each other.  So they fell in love and then they
decided to marry.
But then Dayang Sumbi recognized a scar on his Sangkuriang’s head.  She knew that
Sangkuriang was his son.  It was impossible for them to marry.  She told him but he did not
believe her.  He wished that they marry soon.  So Dayang Sumbi gave a very difficult
condition.  She wanted Sangkuriang to build a lake and a boat in one night!  She said she
needed that for honeymoon.
 Sangkuriang agreed.  With the help of genie and spirits Sangkuriang tried to build
them.  By midnight he had finished  the lake by building a dam in Citarum river.  Then he
started building the boat.  It was almost dawn when he nearly finished it.  Meanwhile Dayang
Sumbi kept watching on them.  She was very worried when she knew this.  So she made
lights in the east.  Then the spirits thought that it was already dawn.  It was time for them to
leave.  They left Sangkuriang alone.  Without their help he could not finish the boat.
Sangkuriang was very angry.  He kicked the boat.  Then the boat turned out to be Mount
Tangkuban Perahu.  It means boat upside down.  From a distant it looks like a boat upside
down.