Case file · Folklore / legend
The princess of Mount Ledang
The Malay Annals tell of a fairy princess on Mount Ledang (Mount Ophir) who set the Sultan of Malacca impossible conditions for marriage, including a bowl of his infant son's blood.
1612 CE · 2.37, 102.61 · status: legend
The account
The sultan gave up. The princess is still said to haunt the mountain, and the tale is one of the best-known Malay legends, retold in film and theatre.