Long time agi 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 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 picked 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 he 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 his 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 women 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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