The Legend of Batu Gantung (Hanging Stone) in Lake Toba, North Sumatera, Indonesia
In addition to the legend of Lake Toba, it turns out there is one that is quite mystical land of Samosir, the legend of Batu Gantung. Batu Gantung is located in Lake Toba, Simalungun, North Sumatra, became interested in the rating when through or cross over to the island. There is a legend that has been spread by word of mouth and even up briefly recounted in textbooks of elementary school students that tells the origins of stone sticking out of the side of a cliff at the edge of the lake.
It's said that long time ago in a small village on the shores of Lake Toba there lived a married couple with a daughter, Seruni. She sad because her father set her up with a young man who was her own cousin. She had a love affair with a young man in her village. Desperate because she didn't know what to do, she wanted to end her life by jumping into Lake Toba with a pet dog, Toki.
When she walked toward the cliffs on the shores of Lake Toba, she suddenly fell into a hole large stone to get into the base. Was so desperate not to ask for help to anyone. She preferred to die in the hole, she told herself. Suddenly the walls of the hole begins to close. "Docked ...! Docked stone..!" Cried Seruni, so that the stone wall is getting closer and choke her.
Toki saw the incident immediately ran to the house to ask for help. At home, Toki immediately approached Seruni's parents with barking, pawing the ground and pacing around his master, Toki tried to tell that Seruni in danger. Aware of what is implied by the dog, Seruni's Parents immediately headed for the field. Both ran to follow Toki and followed the group of villagers up to the edge of the hole where their daughters fall.
Residents just hear the faint sound of a hole "Docked, Docked stone ...." However, no one can reach that fell into the hole until the shock was catastrophic and making a hole slowly docked and closed by itself. Seruni inside hole eventually trapped and can not be saved.
Some time after the shaking stops, at the top of the hole is closed and it appeared a large stone that resembles a girl's body that seems to hang on the walls of the cliff on the shores of Lake Toba. People who saw the incident believe that the stone is an incarnation of Seruni and later renamed it as "Batu Gantung", Hanging Stone in English.