legend of nyai loro kidul

One time during the reign of King Siliwangi Pajajaran Kingdom, he has a beautiful empress and a number seven concubines. Once when the empress gave birth to a beautiful daughter too, even beyond his mother's beauty. He was named after Princess Lara Kadita which means Princess Beautiful.

Kindness and beauty Princess Kadita cause envy of concubines who fear excluded from the presence of King Siliwangi.


They conspired to destroy the life of Princess Lara Kadita and his mother. Both are used in order to suffer a severe skin disease on his body. Under the influence of witchcraft concubines, King Siliwangi even expel them from the palace because it was feared they would be disastrous for the empire.

In this condition, Princess Lara Kadita and his mother went without a goal. Narrated, the empress died in the odyssey, while Princess Lara Kadita kept walking toward the south until he came upon a steep hill on the Beach Karanghawu. Because very tired, Princess Lara Kadita break then fell asleep.

In sleep he dreamed of meeting with "holy men" who gave advice for the princess purify themselves by plunging into the sea to get healing, restore her beauty, as well as to obtain supernatural powers to avenge his suffering natural.

When I woke up, without hesitation Princess Lara Kadita jump from cliff to the middle of the tide, and sank to the bottom of the South Seas. His dream became reality. In addition to recover and re beautiful, she also might receive supernatural powers and immortality. However, the princess must remain in the South Seas.

Since then he called Nyi Loro Kidul (which means loro = suffering, south = kidul), or the Queen's Lord of the South Seas.