Yocha News- Hanging Stone, North Sumatra
Not only Lake Toba has an interesting folk legends. Parapat surrounding the city there is also a tourist spot that was born of the folklore.
Parapat is a small town in Simalungun District, North Sumatra. The small town on the shores of Lake Toba is a tourist destination visited by domestic and foreign tourists, quoted from the site Indonesia.Travel.
Apart from being a tourist spot, Parapat also a legendary city among the people of North Sumatra. In this city there is a rock that resembles a human being, which is believed to be incarnation of a beautiful girl named Chrysanthemum.
Once used to live on the shores of Lake Toba couple with a beautiful daughter named Chrysanthemum. Because beautiful, many young men who wanted to be his lover.
Unfortunately, Seruni been betrothed by her parents to a boy who was his own cousin. Though he Seruni already have their own choices.
One day, Chrysanthemum sitting dreamily on the edge of Lake Toba with her dog, Toki. Seruni dreaming that his fate will be paired on a man she did not love.
Seruni wanted to end his life by jumping into Lake Toba from the edge of the precipice. As he walked toward the cliff, he terperoso in a large gravel pit.
Seruni decided to end his life on that rock. Oa shouting "Parapat, Parapat!" which means docked, so that the stone was closer and squeeze her.
Long story short, eventually crushing the stone Seruni body in it. Now you can see a large rock that resembles the body of a girl and as if hanging on the edge of the cliff. By local stone called Hanging Rock, and the city is today a place called Parapat, because the last words called Chrysanthemum.
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