Long time ago in west Java lived a woman named Dayang Sumbi. She lived alone in the forest.
One day Dayang Sumbi was guilting when suddenly; her quilt fell of from her house. Then she prayed to God, “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 headwith a spoon and asked him.
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 Sangkurinag. Sangkuriang forced her to marry him and Dayang Sumbi asked him to make a vast boat in one night. Sangkuriang called his friends, ghosts and forest fairies to help him. Dayang Sumbi feared the boat could be finished on tim, so she asked woman nearby to help her. The woman hit the grains with grain puncher to make noise which disturbed the ghosts and fairies. The ghosts and 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 down side boat, which stood in the north of Bandung.
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