Nyai Roro Kidul
(The Queen of South Ocean)
Once upon a time, in a kingdom there was a beautiful princess named Kadita. Because of her beauty, she was called Dewi Srengenge which means The Beautiful Sun. Her father was King Munding Wangi. Although he had a beautiful daughter he was always unhappy because he always expected to have a son. The King decided to marry Dewi Mutiara, and he had a son from her. He was very happy. Dewi Mutiara wanted her son to become a king in the future so she might make sure for it. Dewi mutiara came to the king and asked him to send his daughter away. Of course, the king disagreed. "It is ridiculous, I will not allow any body doing such cruel thing to my daughter", said King Munding Wangi. When she heard the answer, Dewi mutiara smiled and said a sweet thing until the king has not anger anymore. However, she kept her bad intention deep in her heart.
In the morning before the sun raised, Dewi Mutiara sent her maid to call a black magician. She wanted the black magician to curse Kadita, her step daughter. " I want her beautiful body full with scabies and itch. If you succeeded I will reward you with the present you never thought before", said Dewi Mutiara. The black magician did the queen’s order. At night, Kadita’s body has been fulled by scabies and itch. When she waked up, she found her body was smell stinky and have an ulcer all over her body. The beautiful princess cried and did not know what to do.
When The King heard, he was very sad. He invited many physician to cure her daughter’s illness. Day by the day nobody could cure her daughter. He realized that her daughter’s illness was not an ordinary illness and someone must send a curse or magic spell. His problem became more difficult when the Queen Dewi Mutiara forced him to send away her daughter. “Your daughter will bring a bad luck to whole country”, said Dewi Mutiara. The king did not want her daughter became a bad rumour in whole country. Finally he must agree to send her only daughter to leave the country.
The poor princess went alone, she did not know where she should go. She almost could not cry anymore. She had a noble heart. She did not have any bad feeling with her step mother, instead she always asked the God to accompany her passed her suffer. Almost seven days and seven nights she has walked until she came to south ocean. She looked at the ocean. It was so clean and clear, unlike other ocean which have a blue or green colour. She jumped onto the water and swim. Suddenly when the south ocean water touched her skin there was a miracle happened. Her ulcer has gone and there was no sign that she has ever had a scabies or itch. Even more she became more beautiful than before. She not only has a power to command whole of the south ocean, but also she became a fairy called Nyai Roro Kidul or The Queen of South Ocean who lived forever.
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