THE LEGEND of CRYING STONE
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In a small village, a girl lives with her mother. The girl is very beautiful. Every day, she puts on make-up and wears her best clothes. She doesn't like to help her mother work in the field. The girl is very lazy.
One day, the mother asks the girl to accompany her to the market to buy some food. At first, the girl refuses, but the mother persuades her by saying they are going to buy new clothes. The girl finally agrees, but she asks her mother to walk behind her. She doesn't want to walk side by side with her mother.
Although her mother is very sad, she agrees to walk behind her daughter. On the way to the market, everybody admires the girl's beauty. They are also curious about the old woman with a simple dress walking behind the beautiful girl. The girl and her mother look very different!
"Hello, pretty lady. Who is the woman behind you?" they ask.
“She is my servant,” answers the girl.
The mother is very sad, but she doesn't say anything. The girl and the mother meet other people.
"Hello, beauty. Who is the woman behind you?" they ask again.
Again, the girl answers that her mother is her servant.
She always says that her mother is her servant every time they meet people. At last, the mother can't bear the pain anymore.
"Mother, please forgive me!" she cries and asks her mother to forgive her.
But it's too late. Her whole body finally becomes a big stone. To this day, people can still see tears falling from the stone. People then call it the crying stone, or in Indonesian, "batu menangis."
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