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The Golden Snail

** 1. This story is set in Java. ** ** 2. The main characters are as follows: Bu Aminah- An old woman who finds the golden snail and is poor and lonely. Devi Limaran- A beautiful princess whom has a spell set on her to be a snail. Also the wife of Raden Putra. Raden Putra- The prince, husband of Devi. ** ** 3. An old widow finds a gold-shelled snail in her fishing net and decides to keep it as a pet. Then she finds out that the snail is actually a princess that had a spell put on her by an evil witch and is getting her new things, cleaning her house and cooking her delicious meals. So she breaks part of her spell by throwing the snail's shell far away. Then the princesses husband, Raden Putra, comes to the house and wants to marry the young girl, though he doesn't realise that it is actually his lost wife. So she says that there is only one way to enable him to marry her. He must retrieve the holy gamelan Lokananta. So he retrieved it by fasting and sleeping in the forest and 100 days later, he got what he needed. Then the spell was broken and she revealed her true identity and they all lived happily, including Bu Aminah, who lived in the palace after that for the rest of her life. ** ** 4. There isn't really much of a moral in this story. ** ** 5. There are not very many things that are different to Western Culture stories. ** ** 6. This is either a myth or legend because of its believability. **