Narrative: Loro Jonggrang Temple

Once upon a time, there was a man named Bandung Bondowoso who wanted to marry Loro Jonggrang, a beautiful young lady who lived in a small village. She didn’t love him but she was afraid to tell the truth because she knew that Bandung Bondowoso had supranatural powers. Finally she found a trick to refuse it. She told him that she would marry him if he built thousand temples in one night. With the help of thousands of spirits, he was able to erect  the temples. Before dawn he almost finish his work.

To know it, Loro Jonggrang asked all the girls to wake up and pound some rice. Hearing the sound of rice pestles, all the spirits run away because she was frightened by the sound and thought that the dawn had come. Because of their running away there was only nine hundred and nineteen nine temples and still one more temple which was not completed by Bandung Bondowoso. He was  maddened by her deceit  and that’s why he then cursed  her to be a temple to complete the temples. It was a sad love story