There was once a youngster by the name of Rare Anggon. His daily duty was to graze the cows belonging to his parents. He, with friends of is age, always went to the fields not far from the village to graze the family cattle.

Rare Anggon liked to draw pictures of puppet figures on the ground, and his friends knew that he was very talented in this art. One day he drew a picture of a young women. As the picture was very pretty he did not want to wipe it out. He left it on the ground so that everybody could see it. He named the picture Lubang Kuri. All his friends were amazed at the beauty of the women in the drawing.

It was told that the king happened to pass the fields where the boys grazed their cows. He saw the drawing and was attracted by the beauty of the women in it. He asked the boys who had made it. One of the boys answered that it was made by Rare Anggon. The king summoned him and asked: “Did you make the drawing?” “Yes, Your Majesty,” Rare Anggon answered. “Where have you seen this women?” the King asked again. “I have never seen her, Your Majesty. It came out of my imagination.” Was the response of Rare Anggon, the king did not believe Rare Anggon and ordered him to find the woman.

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A herd-boy, name Rare Angon once made a shadow puppet out of banana-leaf while he was herding cows in the rice fields. The puppet represented a very beautiful woman, but he made it from his imagination. A prince heard about it and sent for the boy and asked who the figure really was. But though he knew her name was Lobang Kori he did not know who she was. It just came like that, he said. The prince threatened him with death if he did not find the lady and bring her to him. So he set out on his journey to unknown destination in search of unknown lady.

Farther and farther he went, till he met a wizard who showed him the way to Lobang Kori. ‘But you must marry her and not the king,’ said the wizard. The boy was troubled by the thought of his mission, so Lobang Kori told him to make a bee hive and carry her to the palace. She made herself very small and crept inside, and he made all haste to bring her to the palace. When the prince heard the lady was inside, he said: ‘if that is so, she is no use to me; you may take her home.’ So he took her home and married her.

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