Morphology of the Legend of Folklore on Unruly Daughter in West Sumatra’s Minangkabau

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10.2991/assehr.k.210325.018How to use a DOI?

Keywords

morphology, functional structure, legendary folktale, rebllious girls, people Minangkabau, West Sumatra

Abstract

This article aims to discussion about the morphology of the legends folktale of the Minangkabau daughters in West Sumatra who was rebellious to her mother. This research is a descriptive qualitative study. The sources of data in this study are legendary folktales (1) Batu Puti Bayang (2) Awang Tingkuluak, (3) Batu Manangih, and (4) Batu Bangkai, represents the coastal area and mainland area of West Sumatra. Based on the research findings, the motifs of legends folktale is (1) Initial situation: (a) living as an only child, (b) living only with mother, (c) living in the situation is very simple/poor, (d) lazy and hedonist; (2) Transformation Situation: (e) likes to visit crowded places (including markets), (f) likes to preen, (g) does not like doing housework, (h) imposes domestic work on her mother; (3) Final situation: (i) with her mother going to the market, (j) refusing to acknowledge her mother to others because her mother is poor, (k) being cursed by her mother because she feels harassed as a maid; (l) changed to stone due to the mother’s curse.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - WS Hasanuddin
AU  - Emidar
AU  - Zulfadhli
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/26
TI  - Morphology of the Legend of Folklore on Unruly Daughter in West Sumatra’s Minangkabau
BT  - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language and Arts (ICLA 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 95
EP  - 99
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210325.018
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210325.018
ID  - Hasanuddin2021
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