Roro Jonggrang and Prambanan Temple

   *Roro Jonggrang and Prambanan Temple*


  Bandung Bondowoso wanted to marry the beautiful Princess Roro Jonggrang. She didn’t want to marry him because he had killed her father. She gave him an impossible task: to build 1,000 temples in one night. Bandung Bondowoso used his supernatural powers to call genies. By midnight, they had built 999 temples.

Roro Jonggrang was worried. She asked the village women to pound rice and burn hay to make it look like the sun was rising. The genies, thinking it was morning, fled back to the ground. When Bandung realized he was tricked, he was furious. He cursed Roro Jonggrang to be the 1,000th statue to complete the temple.

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