Once upon a time, in Mandailing, North Sumatra, there was a small kingdom called Huta Bargot. The government is across the Batang Gadis River. The king is called Sutan Pulungan. He had a queen and an infant son. In the midst of his busyness building the kingdom, Sutan Pulungan often spends time going to the […]
Tag Archives: Indonesian Folklore
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Once upon a time in the Batak area, the area around the province of North Sumatra, there lived a king who had six wives. Even though the king had six wives, none of his six wives had children. Therefore the king remarried his seventh wife. Batak folklore says that about a year later his seventh […]
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For the Batak people, the Sumatran tiger is highly respected. Once when a tiger was killed in the Jambi area, the Batak people who lived there wrapped it in ulos cloth and performed a traditional ritual to bury it. The tiger is an animal that is highly respected by the Tapanuli people. Even in villages […]