Aryo Menak and Tunjung Wulan

Aryo Menak was walking around under the moon light, thinking about his life. His age was enough to feel love but there was no girl could fill his desire. He wondered if Gods would like to send him a fairy. He was looking at the sky but all he saw just dark sky, and the stars seemed did not plan to drop a fairy.

Aryo Menak stopped walking when he heard voices around the lake. He listened carefully and wondered. He kept silent and walked to the lake. He stopped behind big tree and peeped. He was surprised when he saw beautiful fairies were taking bath. He was very fascinated about their beauty. His heart beat fast. He thought “Gods must have answered my pray”. He watched them from a distance. He was thinking how to get one of them to be his wife. When he saw their shawls, he thought about a plan. He took one of them and hid it under his clothes.

When the fairies finished their bath, they got up and wore their clothes. One of them found out that her shawl was gone. “Where is my shawl?” she asked her friends. They look for everywhere but they couldn’t find it.
“We have to go home now,” one of them said.
“But I can’t go home without my shawl” the fairy who lost the shawl said.
“I’m sorry Tunjung Wulan but we can’t stay any longer” they started to fling out the shawls and flew to the sky. Tunjung Wulan watched her friends left. She was very sad.

Aryo Menak came closer and asked carefully “Are you ok?”
Tunjung Wulan was surprised knowing there was a youngman in front of her. She said sadly, “No, I’m not ok. I can’t go home”
Aryo Menak then offered her to stay in his house for a while. Tunjung Wulan thought she had nowhere to go. Then without thinking anymore, she accepted the offer.

For couple of months Tunjung Wulan stayed in Aryo Menak’s house. Aryo Menak treated her very nicely so Tunjung Wulan started to love him. When Aryo Menak asked her to marry him, she accepted his proposal. Since the marriage, his fortune was great. His harvest was always good and the barn was never empty. Actually, that made him wondered since he always ate rice but never saw his wife pounded the rice.

One day Tunjung Wulan went to market. Before she left, she warned her husband” The rice was being cook, meanwhile never open the rice boiler”.

Aryo Menak promised not to open it. However, after his wife left, he was very curious about the boiler. He went to the kitchen and opened the boiler. He broke his words and opened the boiler’s cover. He saw there was only a grain of rice in the boiler. It seemed she only needed a grain to make a basket of rice. Aryo Menak then put the cover back to its place.

When Tunjung Wulan came home, she was surprised that the rice did not avalanche. She reliazed it was because her husband broke his promised and opened the boiler. The magic was gone. Tunjung Wulan then had to cook rice manually. She had to pound the rice before it was cooked and she needed more to eat. Soon the barn became empty.

Another day, Tunjung Wulan went to the barn to get rice. She was surprised knowing her shawl was lying under the rice hill. The shawl which almost forgotten since she married. Then she came to her husband and asked, “Did you hide my shawl?”
Aryo Menak could not hide his shock. He admitted what he did. Tunjung Wulan was very angry. She wore her fairy clothes and her shawl. “I’m leaving you now,” she said. Aryo Menak begged her not to leave him. However, Tunjung Wulan did not want to listen. She flew to the sky, back to the heaven.

Awang Sukma has the the similar story in Angel Lake.