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THE
GOLDEN SNAIL
Raden Putra was married to a princess
named Dewi Limaran. One day when Dewi Limaran was walking in the palace garden,
she saw a snail among her lovely flowers. She had one of her servants pick it
up and throw it away. The snail was actually an old witch who had disguised
herself as a snail. The witch was very angry, so she cursed Dewi Limaran and
changed her into a golden snail and threw it into the river. Then the stream
carried it far away from the palace.
On the side of a big forest, there lived
a poor widow, mbok Randa Dadapan. Every day she went fishing for her living.
One day it was a particularly bad day as she couldn’t catch any fish. Again and
again she threw her net, but nothing could she get. At last she pulled the net
and went home. There she saw a shiny thing at the bottom of the net. “What is
that?” she asked in her mind. It was a golden snail. She picked it up and took
it home.
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“Where should I put it? O, let me put it
in this pot”, and she put the golden snail in a terracotta pot. She then went
to bed and soon was fast asleep as she was very tired. The next morning when
she woke up, she found to her amazement that the floor had been swept clean.
There was some food on the table. “Who has brought all these?” she wondered who
had done that. She thought she was dreaming but she was not. She thought and
thought but couldn’t think of anybody who could have been so generous to her.
That happened again and again.
Some days passed, she then got an idea.
The next morning she took her basket and went out as usual, but shortly she
returned and hid somewhere outside her home. Suddenly she heard a soft movement
inside the terracotta pot and saw the snail creeping out of it. It grew bigger
and bigger and in a moment later a lovely young girl stood where the snail had
been. The empty shell fell to the ground behind her. Quickly the young girl swept
the floor. Then she took rice, vegetables, meat, eggs and so on out of the pot
and began cooking.
The old woman saw all this; she noticed
that the girl lived under a spell. She then tried to break it. She took the
empty shell and threw it into the river.
“Who are you, dear pretty girl? You’re
very kind to me.”, asked mbok Randa Dadapan to the girl.
“I’m Dewi Limaran. A witch had cursed me
into a snail. Thank you, Mbok. You have thrown the shell so the witch’s spell
has been broken”. Then Dewi Limaran lived with mbok Randa Dadapan for many
years.
As while, Raden Putra’s father, the King
asked him to look for another woman to marry with. Raden Putra refused it as
she could not forget his wife, Dewi Limaran. Then, Raden Putra asked his father
to search for his wife. He wandered from one place to another, from a town to
another town, from a village to another village, going into a forest and out of
it. Months he left the palace but he had not found his wife. He kept going to
search for his wife.
One day Raden Putra had a rest near a
river. He saw a girl passing by to the river and an old woman walked behind her.
“Hey, she really looks like my wife!” he whispered. “Let me follow her.” So
then, raden Putra walked towards the old woman.
“Mbok, is the girl your daughter?” Raden
Putra asked her.
“O, no. she is Dewi Limaran …” the old
woman answered.
“Dewi Limaran? “Raden Putra shouted in
happiness and at that time the girl looked round at them. Her eyes widened.
“Raden Putra?”
At last Raden Putra found his beloved
wife. Then he took her wife and Mbok Randa Dadapan to the palace. And they
lived happily ever after.
Jawab pertanyaan berikut.
1. Mention the characters in the story! (Sebutkan pelaku - pelaku/tokoh pada cerita.)
2. What did Dewi Limaran find the palace garden? (Apa yang Dewi Limaran temukan
di taman istana?)
3. What did the witch do to Dewi Limaran? (Apa yang penyihir lakukan kepada Dewi
Limaran?)
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