The Legend Of Crying Stone

The legend of Crying Stone

Once upon a time, there lived a mother and her daughter in a small village, in Borneo island. The daughter was so beautifull, 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 wants, 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 fulfill to buy a new gown. Before went to the market together, her daughter reminded her mom, “let’s go shopping, but I don’t to walk beside you, you have to walk behind me, I feel embrassed, if people see me,” eventhough her mother felt really sad, she obeyed her daughter request, she didn’t want her daughter felt embrassed. The daughter dressed beautifull while her mother more very simple dress, eventhough 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 sad to hear  that. She kept silent although 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 was her servant.

The mother had stayed patiently along the street. And finally she could not bear it to hear her daughter answers, she prayed to the God, “oh….. god, punish my ungraqtefull daughter please!”, she prayed. Suddenly the girl’s leg  turned to be a stone. Immediately, after the mother stop praying. The change came slowly, knowing her legs turned to be a stone, the daughter screamed, “what happen to my leg?”, and she realized that she had hurt her mother’s feeling. She cried and asked forgiveness to her mother. “ mom,… forgive me please mom????,” she begged, the daughter kept crying but it was too late, the whole body eventually became a stone. Actually her mother felt so sad to see her daughter, but she could not do anything to the god’s destiny, eventhough she had become a stone completely, people can still see her tears, that’s why the reason it was called crying stone or batu menagis.

By: Zainur Rohman