Definition of Legend
Legend is part of Narrative text.
The purpose of legend is to amuse the reader and tells about the origin something or place. It has been told by person to person by mouth for long time.
There are the example of Legend.
- The Legend of Prambanan Temple
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful Javanese princess whose the name was Rara Jonggrang. Rara Jonggrang was very famous because of her beauty in the kingdom was the daughter of Prabu Baka. Prabu Baka was an evil king. One day, a handsome young man with super natural power named Bandung Bondowoso defeated and killed Prabu Baka. When seeing Princess Rara Jonggrang’s beauty, he fell in love with her and wanted to marry her.
Meanwhile, Princess Rara Jonggrang felt sad due to her death father. She did not want to marry Bandung because he had killed her father. But she was also afraid of Bandung Bondowoso. So that, she thought to refuse politely. She decided to make a condition.
“I will marry you if you can do this coondition, you must build one thousand temples just in one night as our wedding gift”, requested Rara Jonggrang.
Bandung agreed the condition. He asked the demonds to Help him. By the spirit of the them, he started building the temples. Approaching midnight, all the temples from the work would nearby be done. Rara Jonggrang knew and very worried. She thought about making Bandung Bondowoso lost in building the temples. She thought, “What shall I do? Bandung is smarter than me. I don't wanna marry him, I will lose”.
Suddenly she got a great idea. She woke up all the women in the palace and ordered them to make the noisy sounds of grinding rice so that the rooster thought it had already been dawn. The rosters woke up and made a sound or crowed earlier as if the day became Morning. All the demons went away and Bandung Bondowoso got frustrated because he failed completing the thousandth temple.
“The princess has deceived me!” Following his anger, he cursed Rara Jonggrang, “You have been cheated. Now, the thousandth temple is you”.
At once, the Princess turned into a statue, knowing this, Bandung regretted and he went away into a farm land. From then people called the temple, Prambanan temple, and the princess statue, Rara Jonggrang statue. You can find the Prambanan temple in Yogyakarta
2. The Legend of Tangkuban Perahu
Once upon a time, there was a kingdom in Priangan Land. There lived a happy family. They were a father in form of dog, his name is Tumang, a mother which was called is Dayang Sumbi, and a child which was called Sangkuriang.
One day, Dayang Sumbi asked her son to go hunting with his lovely dog, Tumang in the forest. After hunting all day, Sangkuriang began desperate and worried because there was not any animal to hunt. He was afraid if his mother was angry. Then he thought to shot his own dog. He took the dog's liver and carried home.
Soon, Dayang Sumbi got out that it was not deer's liver but Tumang's liver, his own dog. So, She was very angry and hit Sangkuriang's head strongly with the rice ladle. In that incident, Sangkuriang got wounded and scar on his head. Then he run away from their home.
Many years later, Sangkuriang had travel many places and finnally arrived at a village. He met a beautiful woman and felt in love with her. When they were discussing their wedding plans, The woman looked at the wound in Sangkuriang's head. It matched to her son's wound who had left severall years earlier. Soon she realized that she felt in love with her own son.
She couldn't marry him but how to say it. Then, she found the way. She needed a lake and a boat for celebrating their wedding day. Sangkuriang had to make them in one night. He built a lake. With a dawn just moment away and the boat was almost complete. Dayang Sumbi had to stop it. Then, she lit up the eastern horizon with flashes of light. It made the cock crowed for a new day. Sangkuriang failed to marry her. He was very angry and kicked the boat. It felt over and became the mountain of Tangkuban Perahu Bandung.
One day, Dayang Sumbi asked her son to go hunting with his lovely dog, Tumang in the forest. After hunting all day, Sangkuriang began desperate and worried because there was not any animal to hunt. He was afraid if his mother was angry. Then he thought to shot his own dog. He took the dog's liver and carried home.
Soon, Dayang Sumbi got out that it was not deer's liver but Tumang's liver, his own dog. So, She was very angry and hit Sangkuriang's head strongly with the rice ladle. In that incident, Sangkuriang got wounded and scar on his head. Then he run away from their home.
Many years later, Sangkuriang had travel many places and finnally arrived at a village. He met a beautiful woman and felt in love with her. When they were discussing their wedding plans, The woman looked at the wound in Sangkuriang's head. It matched to her son's wound who had left severall years earlier. Soon she realized that she felt in love with her own son.
She couldn't marry him but how to say it. Then, she found the way. She needed a lake and a boat for celebrating their wedding day. Sangkuriang had to make them in one night. He built a lake. With a dawn just moment away and the boat was almost complete. Dayang Sumbi had to stop it. Then, she lit up the eastern horizon with flashes of light. It made the cock crowed for a new day. Sangkuriang failed to marry her. He was very angry and kicked the boat. It felt over and became the mountain of Tangkuban Perahu Bandung.
