In a kingdom in Lombok called Kuripan, Princess Mandalika was very beautiful and many princes wanted to marry her. To choose a son-in-law, the king held an archery competition but the princes began fighting over who was best. Desperate to stop the violence, Princess Mandalika drowned herself in the south sea of Lombok. Every year since, worms called Nyale emerge from the sea on the anniversary of her death, believed to be her hair transformed.