Days passed and the same wonders happened every morning. She could not stand to reveal the mistery, and she got an idea. After having breakfast, she took her basket and went out as usual, but shortly she returned to her hut. She sneaked and peeped into the hut to see what happened inside. Knowing who had done all the wonders, she realized that the golden snail in her hut was not an ordinary snail, but a person who lived under a spell, and she knew what she had to do to break it.

The old woman crept stealthily to the empty shell, took it, and then rushed out of the hut to throw it into the river. Now she had broken a part of the spell, and the young girl, who proved to be Dewi Limaran, made herself known to the old woman and thanked her for breaking the spell. The old woman said that she would pray to the gods so as to lead the prince, Raden Putra, to meet his wife, Dewi Limaran.

In the palace,  after several years Dewi Limaran disappeared and no signal that she could be found, the king persuaded his son prince Raden Putra  to look for another bride. Raden Putra agreed and asked his father if he could go out to find a bride, one who was look-alike his lost wife. On his travel, he was accompanied by his faithful servant.

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