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The Legend of Lake Manunjau

Long ago, in an area in west sumatra, there is a very active volcano named Mount Tinjau. In
one village at the foot of Tinjau's brothers lived ten people consisting of nine men and one
woman. Ordinary citizens about their call Bujang Sembilan. These ten brothers are Kukuban,
Kudun, Bayua, Malintang, Galapuang, Balok, Batang,Bayang, and the youngest man named
Kaciak. While their brother the youngest was a girl named Siti Rasani, nicknamed Sani. Both
their parents died long ago, so Kukuban as the eldest son became the head of household. All
decisions in his hand.
Tenth brothers lived in a house of their parents' heritage. To make ends meet, they worked on
farms large enough legacy of their parents. They are very skilled at farming, because they
diligently to help his father and mother when they were alive. In addition, they are also guided
by their uncle named Datuk Limbatang, which they called Engku familiar.

Datuk Limbatang is a mamak in the village and has a son named Giran. As a mamak, Datuk
Limbatang have great responsibility to educate and watched the life of its citizens, including
the nephew's tenth man. For that, every other day, he visited the house Kukuban brothers to
teach them farming skills and various customs procedures for the area. Not infrequently
Datuk Limbatang also took his wife and son to participate with him.

On one day, when Datuk Limbatang with his wife and visited the house of Bujang Sembilan,
Sani accidentally exchanged Giran. Apparently, both boys and girls are equally placed liver.
Sani was invited to meet Giran in a field on the riverbank. With hearts pounding, Giran even
express his feelings to Sani.

Datuk Limbatang wanted to marry his son with Sani. But the elder brother Sani, Kukuban, did
not agree because Giran has been embarrass him in the martial arts arena. But eventually
Datuk Limbatang not force.
One day, Giran found treat wounds in the thigh Sani. But people think they do custom
distortion. Sani and Garin brought to court. They try to convince citizens that they did not do
anything.

After that, of the second Giran lifted his hand to the sky and praying. "My God! Please hear
and grant our prayers. If we were really guilty, destroy our bodies in the water hot crater of
this mountain. However, if we are not guilty, this mountain letuskanlah and curses Bujang
Sembilan to fish!"
It turned out that prayer was answered. Sani and Giran jump down and submerged in the
water crater. Mountain erupted, Bujang Sembilan into fish. Over time the crater of Mount View
expanded and formed a lake which we now know as Lake Maninja

The Legend of Lake Toba

There was a fisherman who lived in Batak Land. His name was Batara Guru Sahala. When he
was angling, he caught a fish. He was surprised to find that fish because the fish could talk
and it begged to set it free. He did accordingly.
After getting free, the fish changed into a beautiful woman and Sahala fell in love with her.
Sahala asked her to marry him and the woman received him. However, she asked his
promised not to tell anyone the secret that she was once a fish. They were very happily
married, and got two daughters.
It was a pity on Sahala. One day when he got very angry with his daughters, he forgot his
promise and he broke it. He told his daughters that they were the daughters of a fish.
His wife could not forgive him. Suddenly, the earth began to shake and volcanoes started to
erupt. The earth cracked and formed a big hole. People said that the hole became Lake
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Once upon a time in a great castle, a Prince's daughter grew up happy and contented, in
spite of a jealous stepmother. She was very pretty, with blue eyes and long black hair.
Her skin was delicate and fair, and so she was called Snow White. Everyone was quite
sure she would become very beautiful. Though her stepmother was a wicked woman,
she too was very beautiful, and the magic mirror told her this every day, whenever she
asked it.
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the loveliest lady in the land?" The reply was always;
"You are, your Majesty," until the dreadful day when she heard it say, "Snow White is the
loveliest in the land." The stepmother was furious and, wild with jealousy, began plotting
to get rid of her rival. Calling one of her trusty servants, she bribed him with a rich reward
to take Snow White into the forest, far away from the Castle. Then, unseen, he was to put
her to death. The greedy servant, attracted to the reward, agreed to do this deed, and he
led the innocent little girl away. However, when they came to the fatal spot, the man's
courage failed him and, leaving Snow White sitting beside a tree, he mumbled an excuse
and ran off. Snow White was all alone in the forest.
Night came, but the servant did not return. Snow White, alone in the dark forest, began to
cry bitterly. She thought she could feel terrible eyes spying on her, and she heard strange
sounds and rustlings that made her heart thump. At last, overcome by tiredness, she fell
asleep curled under a tree.
Snow White slept fitfully, wakening from time to time with a start and staring into the
darkness round her. Several times, she thought she felt something, or somebody touch
her as she slept.
At last, dawn woke the forest to the song of the birds, and Snow White too, awoke. A
whole world was stirring to life and the little girl was glad to see how silly her fears had
been. However, the thick trees were like a wall round her, and as she tried to find out
where she was, she came upon a path. She walked along it, hopefully. On she walked till
she came to a clearing. There stood a strange cottage, with a tiny door, tiny windows and
a tiny chimney pot. Everything about the cottage was much tinier than it ought to be.
Snow White pushed the door open.
"l wonder who lives here?" she said to herself, peeping round the kitchen. "What tiny
plates! And spoons! There must be seven of them, the table's laid for seven people."
Upstairs was a bedroom with seven neat little beds. Going back to the kitchen, Snow
White had an idea.
"I'll make them something to eat. When they come home, they'll be glad to find a meal
ready." Towards dusk, seven tiny men marched homewards singing. But when they
opened the door, to their surprise they found a bowl of hot steaming soup on the table,
and the whole house spick and span. Upstairs was Snow White, fast asleep on one of
the beds. The chief dwarf prodded her gently.
"Who are you?" he asked. Snow White told them her sad story, and tears sprang to the
dwarfs' eyes. Then one of them said, as he noisily blew his nose:
"Stay here with us!"
"Hooray! Hooray!" they cheered, dancing joyfully round the little girl. The dwarfs said to
Snow White:
"You can live here and tend to the house while we're down the mine. Don't worry about
your stepmother leaving you in the forest. We love you and we'll take care of you!" Snow
White gratefully accepted their hospitality, and next morning the dwarfs set off for work.
But they warned Snow White not to open the door to strangers.
Meanwhile, the servant had returned to the castle, with the heart of a roe deer. He gave it
to the cruel stepmother, telling her it belonged to Snow White, so that he could claim the
reward. Highly pleased, the stepmother turned again to the magic mirror. But her hopes
were dashed, for the mirror replied: "The loveliest in the land is still Snow White, who
lives in the seven dwarfs' cottage, down in the forest." The stepmother was beside
herself with rage.
"She must die! She must die!" she screamed. Disguising herself as an old peasant
woman, she put a poisoned apple with the others in her basket. Then, taking the quickest
way into the forest, she crossed the swamp at the edge of the trees. She reached the
bank unseen, just as Snow White stood waving goodbye to the seven dwarfs on their
way to the mine.
Snow White was in the kitchen when she heard the sound at the door: KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Who's there?" she called suspiciously, remembering the dwarfs advice.
"I'm an old peasant woman selling apples," came the reply.
"I don't need any apples, thank you," she replied.
"But they are beautiful apples and ever so juicy!" said the velvety voice from outside the
door.
"I'm not supposed to open the door to anyone," said the little girl, who was reluctant to
disobey her friends.
"And quite right too! Good girl! If you promised not to open up to strangers, then of
course you can't buy. u are a good girl indeed!" Then the old woman went on.
"And as a reward for being good, I'm going to make you a gift of one of my apples!"
Without a further thought, Snow White opened the door just a tiny crack, to take the
apple.
"There! Now isn't that a nice apple?" Snow White bit into the fruit, and as she did, fell to
the ground in a faint: the effect of the terrible poison left her lifeless instantaneously.
Now chuckling evilly, the wicked stepmother hurried off. But as she ran back across the
swamp, she tripped and fell into the quicksand. No one heard her cries for help, and she
disappeared without a trace.
Meanwhile, the dwarfs came out of the mine to find the sky had grown dark and stormy.
Loud thunder echoed through the valleys and streaks of lightning ripped the sky. Worried
about Snow White they ran as quickly as they could down the mountain to the cottage.
There they found Snow White, lying still and lifeless, the poisoned apple by her side.
They did their best to bring her around, but it was no use.
They wept and wept for a long time. Then they laid her on a bed of rose petals, carried
her into the forest and put her in a crystal coffin.
Each day they laid a flower there.
Then one evening, they discovered a strange young man admiring Snow White's lovely
face through the glass. After listening to the story, the Prince (for he was a prince!) made
a suggestion.
"If you allow me to take her to the Castle, I'll call in famous doctors to waken her from this
peculiar sleep. She's so lovely I'd love to kiss her!" He did, and as though by magic, the
Prince's kiss broke the spell. To everyone's astonishment, Snow White opened her eyes.
She had amazingly come back to life! Now in love, the Prince asked Snow White to
marry him, and the dwarfs reluctantly had to say good bye to Snow White.
From that day on, Snow White lived happily in a great castle. But from time to time, she
was drawn back to visit the little cottage down in the forest.
-The End-
 Cinderella

Once upon a time... there lived an unhappy young girl. Unhappy she was, for her mother
was dead, her father had married another woman, a widow with two daughters, and her
stepmother didn't like her one little bit. All the nice things, kind thoughts and loving
touches were for her own daughters. And not just the kind thoughts and love, but also
dresses, shoes, shawls, delicious food, comfy beds, as well as every home comfort. All
this was laid on for her daughters. But, for the poor unhappy girl, there was nothing at all.
No dresses, only her stepsisters' hand-me-downs. No lovely dishes, nothing but scraps.
No nice rests and comfort. For she had to work hard all day, and only when evening
came was she allowed to sit for a while by the fire, near the cinders. That is how she got
her nickname, for everybody called her Cinderella. Cinderella used to spend long hours
all alone talking to the cat. The cat said,
"Miaow", which really meant, "Cheer up! You have something neither of your stepsisters
have and that is beauty."
It was quite true. Cinderella, even dressed in rags with a dusty gray face from the
cinders, was a lovely girl. While her stepsisters, no matter how splendid and elegant their
clothes, were still clumsy, lumpy and ugly and always would be.
One day, beautiful new dresses arrived at the house. A ball was to be held at Court and
the stepsisters were getting ready to go to it. Cinderella, didn't even dare ask, "What
about me?" for she knew very well what the answer to that would be:
"You? My dear girl, you're staying at home to wash the dishes, scrub the floors and turn
down the beds for your stepsisters. They will come home tired and very sleepy."
Cinderella sighed at the cat.
"Oh dear, I'm so unhappy!" and the cat murmured "Miaow".
Suddenly something amazing happened. In the kitchen, where Cinderella was sitting all
by herself, there was a burst of light and a fairy appeared.
"Don't be alarmed, Cinderella," said the fairy. "The wind blew me your sighs. I know you
would love to go to the ball. And so you shall!"
"How can I, dressed in rags?" Cinderella replied. "The servants will turn me away!" The
fairy smiled. With a flick of her magic wand... Cinderella found herself wearing the most
beautiful dress, the loveliest ever seen in the realm.
"Now that we have settled the matter of the dress," said the fairy, "we'll need to get you a
coach. A real lady would never go to a ball on foot!"
"Quick! Get me a pumpkin!" she ordered.
"Oh of course," said Cinderella, rushing away. Then the fairy turned to the cat.
"You, bring me seven mice!"
"Seven mice!" said the cat. "I didn't know fairies ate mice too!"
"They're not for eating, silly! Do as you are told!... and, remember they must be alive!"
Cinderella soon returned with a fine pumpkin and the cat with seven mice he had caught
in the cellar.
"Good!" exclaimed the fairy. With a flick of her magic wand... wonder of wonders! The
pumpkin turned into a sparkling coach and the mice became six white horses, while the
seventh mouse turned into a coachman, in a smart uniform and carrying a whip.
Cinderella could hardly believe her eyes.
"I shall present you at Court. You will soon see that the Prince, in whose honor the ball is
being held, will be enchanted by your loveliness. But remember! You must leave the ball
at midnight and come home. For that is when the spell ends. Your coach will turn back
into a pumpkin, the horses will become mice again and the coachman will turn back into
a mouse... and you will be dressed again in rags and wearing clogs instead of these
dainty little slippers! Do you understand?" Cinderella smiled and said,
"Yes, I understand!"
When Cinderella entered the ballroom at the palace, a hush fell. Everyone stopped in
mid-sentence to admire her elegance, her beauty and grace.
"Who can that be?" people asked each other. The two stepsisters also wondered who the
newcomer was, for never in a month of Sundays, would they ever have guessed that the
beautiful girl was really poor Cinderella who talked to the cat!
When the prince set eyes on Cinderella, he was struck by her beauty. Walking over to
her, he bowed deeply and asked her to dance. And to the great disappointment of all the
young ladies, he danced with Cinderella all evening.
"Who are you, fair maiden?" the Prince kept asking her. But Cinderella only replied:
"What does it matter who I am! You will never see me again anyway."
"Oh, but I shall, I'm quite certain!" he replied.
Cinderella had a wonderful time at the ball... But, all of a sudden, she heard the sound of
a clock: the first stroke of midnight! She remembered what the fairy had said, and without
a word of goodbye she slipped from the Prince's arms and ran down the steps. As she
ran she lost one of her slippers, but not for a moment did she dream of stopping to pick it
up! If the last stroke of midnight were to sound... oh... what a disaster that would be! Out
she fled and vanished into the night.
The Prince, who was now madly in love with her, picked up her slipper and said to his
ministers,
"Go and search everywhere for the girl whose foot this slipper fits. I will never be content
until I find her!" So the ministers tried the slipper on the foot of all the girls... and on
Cinderella's foot as well... Surprise! The slipper fitted perfectly.
"That awful untidy girl simply cannot have been at the ball," snapped the stepmother. "Tell
the Prince he ought to marry one of my two daughters! Can't you see how ugly Cinderella
is! Can't you see?"
Suddenly she broke off, for the fairy had appeared.
"That's enough!" she exclaimed, raising her magic wand. In a flash, Cinderella appeared
in a splendid dress, shining with youth and beauty. Her stepmother and stepsisters gaped
at her in amazement, and the ministers said,
"Come with us, fair maiden! The Prince awaits to present you with his engagement ring!"
So Cinderella joyfully went with them, and lived happily ever after with her Prince. And as
for the cat, he just said "Miaow"!
-The End-