Two brothers, heroes of the folktale “Story of one who hid herself in a cleft of a stone,” whose mother kept a jungle-snake lover’s soul enclosed in a cucumber — a tale with many variants current in the Gayo and Alas countries.
Source
The Achehnese, Vol. II, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.
Two brothers, heroes of the folktale “Story of one who hid herself in a cleft of a stone,” whose mother kept a jungle-snake lover’s soul enclosed in a cucumber — a tale with many variants current in the Gayo and Alas countries.
Source
The Achehnese, Vol. II, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.