Long time ago in West Java, lived a woman named Dayang Sumbi. She lived
alone in the forest. One day Dayang Sumbi was quilting when suddenly, her quilt
fell off from her house. Then she prayed to Gods, "If a man picks up my
quilt, he will be my husband. If a woman, she will be my sister." Then, a
male dog picks it up. For keeping her words, Dayang Sumbi married the dog and
called him Tumang. Dayang Sumbi gave birth to a baby, named him Sangkuriang,
but never told him who his father was.
One day, Sangkuriang was hunting with Tumang
in the forest and he found nothing. He blamed Tumang for the failure and killed
him. When Dayang Sumbi knew that, she hit Sangkuriang's head with a big spoon
and asked him to go.
Many years later, the wandering Sangkuriang
found a house in the forest, and an old beautiful woman was in the house. The
woman, Dayang Sumbi, recognized the adventurer as Sangkuriang. Sangkuriang
forced her to marry him and Dayang Sumbi asked him to make a vast boat in one
night. In the night, Sangkuriang called his friends, ghosts and forest fairies
to help him. Dayang Sumbi feared the boat could be finished on time, so she
asked some women nearby to help her. The woman hit the grains with grain
puncher to make noise which disturbed the ghosts and the fairies. The ghosts
and the fairies ran away before completing the boat. Sangkuriang was very
angry. He kicked away the boat upside down, and it turned into a mountain
called Tangkuban Perahu. It means the downside boat, which stood in the north
of Bandung.
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