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 quiltt from fell off from her house. Then she prayed to the 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, rocegnize the adventurer as Sangkuriang. sangkuriang forced her to marry him and dayang sumbi asking him to make a vast boat only in one night. in the night, sangkuriang called his friends, ghosts fairies to help him. dayang sumbi feared the boat could be finished on time, so she asked some woman nearby to help her. the woman hit the grains with a grain puncher tomake noise which disturbed thegosts and the fairies. the gosts and the fairies ran away before completeing the boat. sangkuriang wasvery angry. he kicked away the boat upside down, and turned into a mountain called TANGKUBAN PERAHU. itmeans the downside boat, which stood in the north of Bandung.
