Timun Mas or Timun Emas (English: "The Golden Cucumber") is a Javanese folktale telling the story of a brave girl who tries to escape from an evil green giant that tries to catch and eat her. Once upon a time in Java, a poor widow named Mbok Srini lived alone on the edge of a jungle. She felt so lonely and prayed to the gods to bless her with a child. One night, in her dream, she envisioned something wrapped under a tree in the jungle. She took this dream as the answer to her prayer. She later went to the jungle searching for it, and she found it exactly as she had seen in her dream. Hoping to find a baby wrapped inside, there was nothing but a cucumber seed.
Adaptations (1)
Timun Mas was adapted into a 1953 film.