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Lau Kawar legend is a legend that developed in Karo, North Sumatra. This district has an area of ??2127.25 km2 located in the Karo highlands, the Bukit Barisan, North Sumatra. Because this area is located in the highlands, so nicknamed Taneh Simalem kabupetan Karo. This district has a cool climate with temperatures ranging from 16 to 17C and fertile soil. So no wonder, if this area is very rich with natural beauty. One is the beauty of Lake Lau Kawar, located in the village of Kuta Gugung, District Simpang Empat, Karo District. The water was clear and calm, and the flowers are beautiful orchids, which surrounds the lake is an amazing natural charm.

According to the local community, before it is formed into a beautiful lake, Lake Lau Kawar is a village named Kawar. Formerly, the area is a very fertile agricultural area. Main livelihood is farming population. They are always abundant agricultural products, though never used fertilizers and medicines like it is today. One time, there is a big disaster, so Kawar village that was originally a lush village that turned into a lake. What actually happens with Kawar village? Want to know the answer? Follow the following story in the folklore of this!

In the days of yore tersebutlah in a story, there is a very fertile village in Karo District. Kawar village its name. Villagers are generally subsistence farmers. Their crop is always abundant. Once, their yields doubled from a year earlier. They are full of rice barns. Even many of the warehouse they do not fit with the plant. To give thanks to God, they also work together to hold safety by performing the ceremony.

On the day of the ceremony, Kawar village was crowded and lively. The people wear colorful clothes and beautiful jewelry. Women in cooking various dishes busy to eat together in the ceremony. Implementation of the ceremony is also enlivened by the performances drum Guro-Guro Aron, a typical music community Karo. At a party held only once a year, the entire population present in the party, except an old woman who suffered from paralysis. Do not miss also the children, in-laws and grandchildren also attended the event.

Old grandmother lived was one of herself lying in bed. Yes, Lord I want to attend the party. But, what this dayaku. Do not walk, stand up every time I cannot afford. An old woman regretted in the liver.

In such circumstances, he could only imagine how the swing party atmosphere. If you hear the faint sound of drum Guro-guro Aron sung, remembered when she was a teenager. On drums, Guro-Guro Aron parties, teenagers and women dance in pairs. What happy moments like that. However, all lived in the grandmother's memories of him. Now, living to torment and suffering experienced in old age. He suffered alone in the loneliness. Nobody wants to talk to him. Only the tears that accompanied him to lighten his load. He seems to feel like a useless waste. All people do not care about him, including children, in-laws and grandchildren.

When it came time for lunch, all residents who attended the party gathered to eat food that has been prepared. There were roast beef cattle, goats, pigs, and chickens are still warm. Cool atmosphere makes them grow greedy in a variety of dishes to enjoy it. In the midst of laughter occasionally they ate greedily, for among them, there are just making a joke. Exaggerated sense of joy that makes them forget themselves, including children and the daughter's grandmother. They completely forget their mother who was lying limp in the house alone.

Meanwhile, the grandmother has been feeling very hungry, because since the morning, but there is one bit of food that fills the stomach. Now, he is expecting a child or in-law's memory and promptly deliver food. However, after waiting, no one came. Ouch. My stomach clenched-wrap. But, why, until now, my children do not provide food for me? The old women complained that she was shivering from hunger. With the remnants of power there, he tried to find food in the kitchen, but he did not get anything. Apparently, the child was accidentally not cooking that day, because in place of the ceremony provided a lot of food.

Finally, the old grandmother was inching back into bed. He was very disappointed, do not feel the tear out of his eyelids. Old mother wept for the fate of the poor. Yes, Lord. Cukuku kids really have the heart to let me suffer like this. There they eat well and happy. I'm starving. Really, they are violent. said the old grandmother was in the heart with a feeling of disappointment. Moments later, gluttonous meal in the ceremony was over. Apparently, the new kid on the thought of his mother at home. He then immediately went to his wife.

At home, the boy immediately gave food to her grandmother, then ran back to the ceremony. What pleases grandma. At times hungry like that, suddenly there who brought food. With feelings of joy, the grandmother immediately opened the package. But how disappointed he was, it turns out the contents of this package is only the leftovers.

Several pieces of beef and mutton bones nearly disappeared. Yes, Lord. Are they already thinking like an animal. Why would they give me food scraps and bones, an old grandmother said, annoyed. Actually, the package containing roast beef that is still intact. However, in the middle of the journey's grandson has been eating some of the contents of the package, so that what remains is bone. Old grandmother who does not know the truth, son and daughter thought it would do so. So, with treatment, he felt very sad and humiliated. The tears were unstoppable again. He then prayed to God to condemn the child and her daughter.

Yes, Lord. They have disobeyed me. Give them a lesson, an old woman pleaded with the Lord Almighty. Recently, the sentence was out of the mouth of an old grandmother, suddenly a very strong earthquake. The sky became overcast, the sky burst like thunder, and soon rain cats and dogs. The entire native delicacy of fun, suddenly panicked. The voice screams for help came from everywhere. However, they could not escape the natural ferocity was absolutely awful. In an instant, a fertile and prosperous village was suddenly drowned Kawar. No one resident who survived the incident. A few days later, the village was turned into a crater big flood. By the local community, the crater was named Lau Kawar.

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