SIGALE-GALE

Once upon a time in a village in Toba, there lived a king. He had a son, Manggale who was prepared to continue his generation. But the poor could not deny, when his son is not growing up. Suddenly, he suffered from a disease that could not be cured.

The king loves his son so much. So, the king called shamans the best from all over to treat his son, but no one were successful. Finally, the child had died because of no power resist malignancy of the disease. This raises profound sadness at the King. For days, he mourned the loss of an only child who had a succession.

After the incident, the king heard about the greatness of a shaman who was very powerful at that time. So, he sent his guards to found the existence of witch shaman to face to the king. In front of the shaman, the king gives decree to revive the dead child with a threat. If it fails, then the shaman would be put to death.

Powerless resist commandment of the king, shaman is thought hard how to save his life by giving what was asked by the king. In these critical times, he found a wood carving craftsman that was very reliable and he found ideas to save himself. Right at the time specified, the shaman came to the kings house and took a wooden statue carved resemble the king's son. Shaman is also warned that his son could only be seen from a distance and if it is violated, then the child would return to death and his body would turn into a wooden statue.

The King agreed on what was required with a great joy. Accompanied by music, shaman issued the spells and immediately statue dance to the music that being played. The king was amazed and in an instant he had been in front of a wooden sculpture and hugged him tightly. He forgot his promise. Aware of the weirdness that happened, the king was astonished because he embraced it just a wooden statue and not his son.

Thinking of what was required by the shaman, king regretted on what he had done, and now he lost his son again. The king could not blame healers, or anyone else, he was very

sad because of all the effort he did not have to see the results that he wanted. The king frees the shaman, and the wooden statue named as Sigale-gale.

Since then every time the figure of the king missed his son, the King ordered that will be moved Sigale-gale-motion dance to the accompaniment of music played.