The minister's daughter had just gotten married. After the wedding ceremony there was a great feast, with music and dancing and contests and games.
When they got to playing hide-and-seek, the bride decided to hide in her grandfather's trunk up in the attic.
"They'll never find me there," she thought.
As she was climbing into the trunk, the lid came down and cracked her on the head, as she fell unconscious inside. The lid slammed shut and locked.
No one will ever know how long she called for help or how hard she struggled to free herself from that tomb. Everyone in the village searched for her and they looked almost everywhere. But no one thought of looking in the trunk . After a week her brand-new bridegroom and all the others gave her up for lost.
Years later a maid went up into the attic looking for something she needed.
"Maybe it is trunk," she thought. She opened it and screamed. There lay the missing bride in her wedding dress, but then she was only a skeleton.
Indonesian:
Anak pendeta baru saja menikah. Setelah upacara pernikahan selesai, ada perayaan besar-besaran dengan musik dan tarian serta kontes dan permainan.
Ketika mereka bermain sembunyi-sembunyian, pengantin wanita bermaksud bersembunyi di peti besar penyimpan barang milik kakeknya di loteng.
"Mereka tidak akan menemukan aku," pikirnya.
Setelah memanjat, penutupnya jatuh dan mengenai kepalanya. Ia pingsan di dalam dan pintu kota tertutup serta terkunci.
Tak seorang pun tahu, berapa lama ia berteriak minta tolong atau berusaha membebaskan dirinya sendiri dari sana. Orang-orang desa mencarinya ke seluruh penjuru desa tapi tidak pernah menemukannya. Tak ada orang yang berpikiran mencarinya di kotak itu. Setelah seminggu, mereka menyerah melakukan pencarian.
Setahun berlalu dan seorang pembantu ingin ke loteng untuk mencari barang.
"Mungkin didalam kotak," pikir pembantu itu. Dia membuka kotak dan berteriak kencang. Disana berbaring pengantin wanita dalam bentuk tulang belulang.
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