From Sad Ending to Happy Ending
“Telaga Pasir”
Once upon a time, there lived a married couple of farmer named Ki and Nyai Pasir. They lived alone
because they did not have children. They lived happily even simple.
One day, Ki Pasir sit unwind after digging in the fields. He leaned against a large of tree on the outskirts
of the rice fields. Suddenly his hand touched something round and slippery in his side. He saw an egg
turned unusual. The eggs were larger than a goose egg.
“What kind of Eggs is this?” He said to himself. “Ah, may be Nyai wants. “
He brought egg home. Ki Pasir could not even remember to finish hoeing fields. He wanted to give it to
his wife’s egg.
Arriving home, he called his wife, “Nyai. Look what I have. “
Nyai also amazed to see the strange egg.
“Where you found it, Ki? What egg? “She asked.
“It is……..,” replied Ki Sand, “Do not ask me, I also do not know what it is.”
“Better get you cook it. I’m hungry. “
Nyai Pasir cooked the eggs and served it on the dinner table. He divided the eggs into two and they also
ate it with rice. The eggs were delicious once, more savory than chicken eggs.
Sometime, after eating, they both took rest and sleep. Around midnight Nyai Pasir woke up feeling the
heat of his body and his skin itch. She saw her husband was not there at her side, so she wanted to look
for help.
When she could not find her husband in the house, she went to the home page. She saw Ki Pasir was
rolling on the ground. Apparently her husband also felt the heat and itching due to the large egg eating.
Nyai approached her husband wanted to help. But her arrival was late, she arrived beside Ki Pasir would
hold a burning sensation and itching all over his body. She also threw herself on the ground and rolled
around like Ki Pasir.
They kept rolling on the ground to form a hole widening and in. Then from the hole in the ground, out
the mother of the dragon egg and also water followed her . Ki Pasir and Nyai saw her and begged for
forgiveness and help from the dragon mother. The dragon mother was willing to forgive them, but on
the condition that they have to make a lake for the water that came out of the hole which followed her.
Ki Pasir and Nyai were willing to do it. After several years, they had done it. Then The Mother Dragon
came back and told them to soak in the lake. Finally, Ki Pasir and Nyai became human again. Now, the
lake is known as Telaga Pasir or Sarangan lake, a tourist spot located on the slopes Lawu, Magetan East
Java.
