The Mysterious Story of Bukit Puteri

From the elder story, the mysterious story happen when Plate and silverware was said to be disappeared when people meet with mysterious people or lady at the hill. Second mysterious story is when a Malay mother who wants to held a feast for event at that day. However, her plate and bow that she has were very old and not “beautiful”. She went into the town with her boat and bought some plate and ware in the market. But she loss all her dishes and cutlery while crossing the river with her Sampan.

Puteri Bukit Puteri

The old mother was sad because she lost her cutlery and she was devastated on what to do during the feast. While walking past the foot of Bukit Puteri, she rest there saddened by her ordeal. The Puteri Bunian who live there was touch by her ordeal. When the old women was ready to continue back to home, she was shock to find silver and porcelain cutlery lay in front of her. She knew that she had received help by the Puteri Bunian. During the day of the feast, the villager and guest was surprise seeing the gold and silver cutlery and beautiful white porcelain plate that she had use on that day. The local populace were curious on how a simple pleasant can have expensive ware and where did it came from.

Silver and porcelain cutlery

After being inquired by the guest and relative on how she obtain the Gold and silver plate and bowl. She told them of her ordeal at the river and how the cutlery lay on the foot hill. The villager and guess later know that she had received help from the Puteri Bunian. Some villager who were curious of the story, follow the old lady to the hill where she want to return the cutlery. The villagers that follow her waited and waited, near the hill to see whether the plate was taken aback by the Puteri Bukit Puteri. While waiting, suddenly one of the villagers shouted that the

cutlery had vanished.

During that, the old lady was also vanished. After some time they heard rumour about somebody, who also use the same kind of expensive cutlery as the old lady. The man claim that he went to the foot hill and shouted wheather he can borrow the cutlery for a feast, After waiting some time ,nothing happen that he give up that maybe the old lady had lied. Strangely and astonishingly he claims that while walking down from the hill he found the cutlery at the foot hill.

Since then on, when they are any feast or gathering. The villagers will go beside the hill and shout if they can borrow her cutlery. Astonishing where in the next morning they will found the sliver cutlery lay at the foot hill. But not all requests was received by Puteri.

After finishing using it the the villager will return it in the next evening. This go on till the 1920’s .Until one day, the fairy princess was vexed and left Bukit Puteri when the local residents that borrowed her cutlery ,started to take granted of her help that some return them do not wash or was not return whole or return it on time or replace them if they were damaged. The dishonesty of the borrower caused the fairy princess to leave the hill.

Tasik Puteri, the place that Puteri had migrated 

The princess was said to had migrated to a hill in Besut distict, which the local rename the river as Tasik Puteri as local populace in Besut claim to had meet the fairy there.

Sources :

http://interesting-place-in-terengganu.blogspot.com/2006/05/bukit-puteri.html

http://pelancongan-terengganu.blogspot.com/2010/07/bukit-puteri.html

http://www.visit-terengganu.net/bukit-puteri/

http://www.arkib.gov.my/bukit-puteri1

http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukit_Puteri