Once upon a time, there was a farmer, named Toba , who was alone in the fertile and flat valley. The farmer was working in the ricefield and garden to make living.
Beside working his garden, sometimes the man went fishing to the river that not far away from his house. Every time he went fishing, he easily got fishes because the river was very clean and there were so many fishes. The fishes of his fishing then was cooked then he ate them.
on the afternoon, after going home from garden, the man went straight to the river to go fishing. But, there was quite a while he waited, there was no fish he got. It was something that he never experienced before. Because, it usually easy to get the fish in the river. Because there were no fish taking the bait, he became upset, and decided to stop fishing. But, when he wanted to draw his fishing tool, suddenly his bait was caught by fish, and brought it to the center of the river. His heart that was upset before became excited. Because he knew that the fish that take the bait was a big fish. After a while he just let his tools pulled away by fish, then he snatched the tools, and there was a big fish hanging on his tools fishing. Quickly, the fish was brought to the ground so it was not run away. When he wanted to release his fishhook, the fish was staring at him. After the fish was placed in some area, then the farmer went to the deep river to take a bath. He was very happy because he never got the fish with that big. He went home and brought the fish to the kitchen. When he wanted to set the fire to toast the fish, apparently, the woods were out. He went out to find the woods from his house. But, the fish was gone and the place where the fish was in, there were some gold coins. Because of surprised and amazed he experienced that thing, he left to the kitchen then went to the room.
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when the man opened his room, suddenly his blood was rushed out, because in his room, there was a woman standing with long spread hair. The woman was combing his hair while standing in front of the mirror hanging on the wall. After that the woman suddenly, turned around and stared at the man who was confused in front of the door. The man was amazed by the georgeous beauty of the woman. He had never seen such a beautiful woman though he wandered far away to every country.
Because it was late at night, the woman wanted to turn light on. After the man turned the light on, he was asked by the woman to accompany her to the kitchen to cook rice for them. While waiting rice boiled, the woman told the story that she was a disquise from the big fish that the man got when he fished in the river. Then, she explained that some gold coins laid on the kitchen were form of her shel. After weeks later, the woman stated that she was willing to accept his propose, on condition that he must promise for the entire life that he would never reveal her origin that came from fish. After the man promise, then they got married. After a year, they got a son, his name was Samosir. The son was so spoiled by her mother, so he was not good in manner and lazy. After grown up, the boy was told by his mother to deliver rice everyday for his father that working in the garden. But, he often refused to do that duty, so his mother must deliver the rice itself to the garden.
One day, the boy was asked by his mother to deliver the rice to the garden for his father. Initially, he refused. But, because his mother forced him, then he went to deliver the rice upsetly. In the middle of the street, most of the rice and dishes were eaten by him. After arriving at the garden, the rice was just a litlle left, gave it to his father. When accepted it, the father was so hungry because the rice delivered too late. Therefore, the father was very furious to see the rice given to him was only remaining. His anger was more when the boy told that the rice was eaten by him. His patient was gone, and he hit the boy while said, ”You are a bad boy. Ugly boy. You are really descent of woman from fish!”
On tears, the boy ran home to see his mother in the house. He told to his mother that he was beaten by his father. All words his father said was told to his mother. After hearing that story, his mother was very upset, especially when her husband broke his promise with the insulted words he said to his son. His mother told to the son to go up on the hill not far away from there and to climb the highest tree on the top of the hill. Without question more, the boy did what his mother told him. His mother screamt that he was nearly getting there, the top of the highest tree on the top of the hill, then she ran away to the river not far away from the house. When she arrived at the bank of the river, he jumped to the river then suddenly she changed became a big fish. At the same time, the river flooded a big stream and the rain fallen down very hard. After a while, the river was flooded everywhere and the valley was whelming . Mr Toba could not resque himself, he was died drawning by whelming. After such a long time, the whelming was so wide spread and became a very big lake that in later time it was called Lake Toba. While the little island in the middle of the lake was called Samosir Island.
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