LEGENDA DANAU TOBA

Di wilayah Sumatera hiduplah seorang petani yang sangat rajin bekerja. Ia hidup sendiri sebatang kara. pada suatu hari petani tersebut pergi ke sungai di dekat tempat tinggalnya, ia bermaksud mencari ikan untuk lauknya hari ini.dia mencari ikan di sungai ,kail yang dilemparkannya tadi nampak bergoyanggoyang. Ia segera menarik kailnya.ikan yang di dapat nya besar dan cantik . Setelah beberapa saat memandangi ikan hasil tangkapannya, petani itu sangat terkejut. Ternyata ikan yang ditangkapnya itu bisa berbicara. Tolong aku jangan dimakan Pak!! Biarkan aku hidup,petani itu langsung mengembalikan ikan di sungai.

Setelah mengembalikan ikan ke dalam air, petani itu bertambah terkejut, karena tiba-tiba ikan tersebut berubah menjadi seorang wanita yang sangat cantik.Lalu ikan itu berkata Terimakasih engkau sudah membebaskan aku dari kutukan itu, dan sebagai imbalannya aku bersedia kau jadikan istri, Petani itupun setuju. Maka jadilah mereka sebagai suami istri. Namun, ada satu janji yang telah disepakati, yaitu mereka tidak boleh menceritakan bahwa asal-usul Puteri dari seekor ikan. Jika janji itu dilanggar maka akan terjadi petaka dahsyat.

Setelah beberapa lama mereka menikah, istri Petani melahirkan seorang bayi laki-laki. tapi ada kebiasaan yang membuat heran semua orang. Anak tersebut selalu merasa lapar, dan tidak pernah merasa kenyang. Semua jatah makanan dilahapnya tanpa sisa. Hingga suatu hari anak petani tersebut mendapat tugas dari ibunya untuk mengantarkan makanan dan minuman ke sawah di mana ayahnya sedang bekerja. Tetapi makannya di lahap habis oleh anaknya,ayahnya pun mengetahui

Dengan nada tinggi petani itu langsung memarahi anaknya. "Anak tidak tau diuntung ! Tak tahu diri! Dasar anak ikan!," umpat si Petani tanpa sadar telah mengucapkan kata pantangan dari istrinya. seketika itu juga anak dan istrinya hilang lenyap tanpa bekas dan jejak. Dari bekas injakan kakinya, tiba-tiba menyemburlah air yang sangat deras. Air meluap sangat tinggi dan luas sehingga membentuk sebuah telaga , Danau itu akhirnya dikenal dengan nama Danau Toba.

LEGEND LAKE TOBA

In the region of Sumatra, there lived a farmer who is very diligent work. He himself lived alone. One day the farmer went to the river near where he lived, he intended to go fishing for the day ini.dia lauknya fishing in the river, threw a hook that had seemed to sway. He immediately pulled his kailnya.ikan which can be large and beautiful. After a few moments looking at the fish catch, the farmer was very surprised. It turns out that the fish they catch could talk. "Please sir I do not eat! Let me live ", the farmer immediately put the fish in the river

After returning the fish into the water, the farmers grew surprised, because the fish suddenly turned into a woman who said the fish was very cantik.Lalu Thank you once you have freed me from the curse, and in return I'm willing to make you a wife ', Farmers agreed that too. They then become husband and wife. However, there is one promise that has been agreed, that they should not be told that the origin of the daughter of a fish. If the promise is broken there will be a terrible catastrophe.

After a while they were married, farmer's wife gave birth to a baby boy. but there is a habit that makes everyone wonder. The child was always hungry, and never feel full. Devour all the food rations without rest. Until one day the farmer's son from his mother got a job to deliver food and drinks into the fields where his father was working. But the voracious eating out by his son, his father knows

With high notes that farmers immediately scolded her son. "Children do not know scallywag! Not know myself! Basic fry!," Spat the Farmer has unwittingly uttered abstinence from his wife. immediately lost his wife and daughter vanished without a trace and trail. From the former stamping his feet, suddenly a very heavy water menyemburlah. Overflow water is very high and wide so as to form a lake, Lake was eventually known as the Lake Toba.