The Legend of Lake Toba

Once upon a time in North Sumatra lived a young man named Toba. One day he went
fishing in the lake. He waited a long time and suddenly he got big and fresh a golden fish. Then
Toba went home and prepared everything to cook the fish. But he was very surprised because the
fish could talk.
“Please don’t eat me.” Said golden fish. “Who are you? How can you talk?” said Toba
surprised. “I’m a golden fish, please don’t eat me.” Said golden fish. “Mmm, all right.” Said Toba.
The next day, Toba went farmer in the field. Toba farmer from morning until noon. He was
very hungry and tired, so he went back home. At home, Toba was very surprised because there
was a beautiful girl who was cooking. “Who are you? Why are you in my house?” said toba
surprised. “I’m sorry, I was a golden fish and now I human form, I’m here to give you some food,
as a sign of my gratitude.” Said the beautiful girl.
Time the past Toba and the beautiful girl married and had a baby named Samosir. When
Samosir is seven years old, he was very lazy. One day his mom, asked him to give food to his
father in the d“Samosir, please deliver this food to your father, mother was busy.” Said mother.
“No, Mom! I want to play!” said Samosir snapped. “Hey Samosir! What wrong with you? He’s
your father! He was hungry.” Said mother angry. Because mother angry Samosir forced to deliver
this food.
On the way to the farm Samosir eat father lunch little by litte until the remaining few. When
Toba opened the eat box turn out it was empty, Toba was very angry to Samosir. “Whaat? Where
the food?!” said Toba very angry. “I’m sorry, Dad. I’m so hungry.” Sampsir answered with
anxiety.
Toba felt really upset with his son. And, suddenly he said something rude that was
forbidden. “Your manner is like a little animal. It’s because your mother is a fish. So you are like
her. Go away from here!” Toba didn’t realize that what he said was so rude. He was forbidden to
tell about Samosir mother’s origin.
Samosir sad and tell all to his mother. “Calm down, Samosir. Don’t cry anymore. Now, all
you have to do is climbed the highest tree and stayed there. There will be a huge flood and this
village will be sink and disappear.” Said mother.
 Samosir went away and climbed the highest tree in the village. Mother was really sad. She
decided to do suicide by jump to the lake. Suddenly, the sky was getting dark. Not so long after
that, the rain fell down. It was a great rain. The thunder and lightning were so scary. Meanwhile,
Toba was surprised by this disaster. He could not save himself. And Samosir, although he climbed
the highest tree, he still could not escape the great disaster.
And then a small island in the middle of the lake called Samosir Island. And the village
was submerged and became a large lake. The large lake is named TOBA.