Folklore And Fairy Tales

Red Onion Garlic

In a village, there lived a widow with her two beautiful daughters, Bawang Merah and Bawang Putih. Bawang Putih's biological father who is also the husband of Bawang Merah's mother has died a long time ago, so Bawang Putih is the half-brother of Bawang Merah.

Red Onion and Garlic have different characters and personalities. Garlic is diligent, kind, honest and humble. Meanwhile, Bawang Merah is lazy, glamorous, proud and envious. The bad personality of Bawang Merah is exacerbated because his mother spoils him. His mother always gave him everything he wanted. While Garlic does all the work at home. Washing, cooking, cleaning the house, and all the work is done alone. Meanwhile, Bawang Merah and his mother only spend time for themselves, because when they need something, they can ask Bawang Putih.

Garlic never complained of the bad luck she had to face. She always served her stepmother and sister happily. One day, Bawang Putih was washing her mother and sister's clothes in the river. Bawang Putih did not realize it when a piece of cloth belonging to his mother was washed away by the river. How sad he was, thinking that if the cloth could not be found, he would be blamed, and it was not impossible that he would be punished and expelled from the house.

For fear that his mother's cloth could not be found, Bawang Putih continued to search and walk along the river. Whenever he saw someone by the river, he always asked about his mother's clothes being washed away by the river, but everyone did not know where the cloth was. Finally Bawang Putih came to a place where the river flowed into a cave. Surprisingly, there was a very old woman inside the cave. Bawang Putih asked the old woman if she knew the whereabouts of her mother's cloth.

The woman knew where the cloth was, but she gave the conditions before handing it over to Bawang Putih. The condition was that he had to work to help the old woman. Bawang Putih was used to working hard so her work pleased the old woman. It was late afternoon and Bawang Putih was saying goodbye to the old woman. The woman handed the cloth to him. Because of his kindness, the old woman offered him a gift of pumpkins . There are two of them, one is bigger than the other. Garlic is asked to choose the gift it wants. Since Garlic was not greedy, then he chose the smaller one.

After that, the Red Onion returned home. Her stepmother and Bawang Merah were furious that Bawang Putih was late. He also complained about what happened. Her stepmother was still angry that Bawang Putih was late and had only brought one small pumpkin, so her mother slammed the pumpkin to the ground.

To fulfill their greed, Bawang Merah follows the steps told by Bawang Putih. He willingly washed away his mother's cloth, walked along the river, asked the people and finally came to the cave where the old woman lived. However, unlike Bawang Putih, Bawang Merah refused the old woman's order to work and she even arrogantly ordered the old woman to give her a bigger pumpkin. The old lady complied with the request of Onion to give a Great Pumpkin to Onion Merah.

The Red Onion happily carried the gourd the old woman gave him, while imagining how much jewelry he would get. Upon returning home, the mother welcomed her beloved daughter. Not long after, his lab was smashed to the ground, but instead of jewelry, various terrifying venomous snakes came out from within the gourd. Bawang Merah and his mother finally realized what they had been doing all this time was wrong and asked Bawang Putih to forgive them.

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"𝑷𝒆𝒔𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒊 𝑪𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂 𝑩𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒉 𝑩𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒉 𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒉 𝒋𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒌 𝒚𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒂𝒋𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒂 𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒚𝒖𝒌𝒂𝒊𝒎𝒖. 𝑺𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒕𝒖 𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒉 𝒔𝒊𝒇𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒉 𝒕𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒌 𝒌𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒎𝒖 𝒃𝒂𝒉𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒂, 𝒃𝒂𝒉𝒌𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒘 𝒌𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒂 𝒚𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒏 𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒈."

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