Once upon a time, in a small village on the shores of Lake Toba there lived a husband and a wife with his beautiful daughter named Seruni. Besides beautiful, Seruni is also classified as a diligent child because she always helps her parents when they're working in the field that the results are used to sufficient the daily needs.
One day Seruni had to work in the fields by herself because her parents have purpose in the neighboring village. She was accompanied only by his dog, named Si Toki. Arriving at the field, Seruni just sat pensively, looking at the natural beauty of Lake Toba. While the dog, Si Toki, come sit beside Seruni staring at his master's face that looked like she was facing a problem. Once in a while, the dog barking to distract Seruni if there is anything suspicious around the fields.
Actually, the last few days Seruni always looked moody. This is because her father would set her up with a young man who still considered her own cousin. In fact, she had a relationship with a young man in the village and has also promised to live together. This situation makes she confused, not knowing what to do, and started to give up. On one side, she doesn't want to disappoint her parents, but on the other side she also could not bear to be apart from her sweetheart.
After thoughtfully for a moment and without any results, Seruni getting up from where she sat. With tears in her eyes she walked slowly toward Lake Toba. Apparently she was very desperate and wanted to end her life by jumping into Lake Toba. While Si Toki who also followed his master to the shores of the lake can only barking because he do not know what is going on in the minds of Seruni.
When walking toward a cliff at the edge of Lake Toba, she suddenly fell into a hole of a big rock and get into the bottom. And, because it is located at the bottom of a very dark hole, making the pretty girl got scared and cried for help to his lovely dog. However, since Si Toki only an animal, then he can not do anything except barking constantly around the mouth of the hole.
Finally, the girl was getting desperate and saying to herself, "Ah, I'm better off dead."
After said that, somehow the walls of the hole began to close. "Parapat ...! Parapat the rock!" Seruni exclaimed that stone walls getting closer and pressed her body.
Si Toki saw what happened and immediately ran into the house to ask for help. At home Si Toki immediately approached Seruni's parents who already at home. While barking, clawing the ground and paced around his master, Si Toki tried to tell that the Seruni was in danger.
Conscious of what is hinted at by the dog, Seruni's parents immediately headed to the fields. Both of them ran after Si Toki to get to the edge of the hole where their girl fall. When they heard her screams of the hole, the mother immediately made a torch as a light because it was already dusk. While the father ran back to the village to ask for help from neighbors.
A little later, most of the neighbors had gathered in the Seruni's father house for together toward the hole where Seruni fall. They were bring bamboo ladder, mines, and torch as lighting.
Arriving at the the field, while in tears Seruni's mother told to her husband, "Dad, the hole is too deep and opaque. I just heard the faint sound of our child says: parapat, parapat stone ... "
Without answering his wife question, Seruni's father immediately looked into the hole and shouted, "Seruniii ...! Serunii ...! "
"Seruni ... my daughter! We will help you!" the mother participated screaming.
Several times they shouted, but got no answer from Seruni. Only heard Seruni drifted voice which told rocks around her to move closer and pressed her body.
Residents who attended at the spot also trying to help by holding a rope to the bottom of the hole, but did not touched or held by Seruni.
Feeling worried, Seruni's father decided to follow his daughter into the hole, "Mom, hold the torch! I will go down to pick up our daughter!"
"Do not be careless, dad. This hole is very dangerous!" Prevent his wife.
"Yes sir, this hole is very deep and dark," said one of his neighbor.
After Seruni's father changed his mind, suddenly sound of thunder and the earth was shaken which makes holes slowly and closed by itself. Seruni were in the hole finally pressed and can not be saved.
Some time after the shaking stops, at the top of the closed hole it appeared a large rock that resembles the body of a girl that seems to hang on the wall of the cliff at the edge of Lake Toba. People who saw the incident believe that the rock is an incarnation of Seruni and later renamed as the "Batu Gantung" (In english: Hanging Stone).
And, since the last Seruni sayings heard by residents only "Parapat, Parapat, and parapat", then the area around Batu Gantung later was named Parapat.
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