Once upon a time in West Java, Indonesia, lived a princess named Dayang Sumbi.

She was
beautiful and kind-hearted. Her hobby was weaving cloth. But sometimes she could be very lazy.
One day her weaving tool fell, but she was too lazy to get it herself. She shouted out, “Can
anybody help me get my tool? If you are a female, I will take you as my sister. If you are a male,
I will marry you!”

A male creature came, but it was a dog. His name was Tumang. He happily brought the tool to
her. Dayang Sumbi was very surprised, but she kept her promise. She married the dog. Tumang
was actually a man who had been cursed by a witch to become a dog. But at certain times
Tumang could turn back to be a normal man.

Their only son, Sangkuriang, was soon born, and he grew up to be a handsome and healthy boy.
He always played with his very loyal dog, Tumang. He did not know that he was actually his
father, because Dayang Sumbi hid the secret from him.

Sangkuriang liked to hunt in the woods, of course with Tumang. One day Dayang Sumbi asked
him to bring home a deer’s heart. But, after hunting for several days, he could not fi nd any deer
in the woods. He did not want to disappoint his mother and was thinking hard how to bring home
a deer’s heart. Suddenly, he had a very bad idea. He killed Tumang! Then, he brought his heart
home and gave it to Dayang Sumbi.

Sangkuring could not cheat her. She knew it was Tumang’s heart. So, she got very angry and hit
Sangkuriang’s forehead with a piece of wood and told him to leave. With a bad wound on his
forehead, Sangkuriang left the village.

Many years later, Sangkuriang grew up to be a powerful man. One day he went back to his
village. He met a beautiful young woman there, and he fell in love with her at the first sight. It
was Dayang Sumbi! She never got older because she had been granted eternal youth by the
gods.
Sangkuriang did not know that she was his mother, so he came to her and proposed to marry
her.

When he walked closer to her, Dayang Sumbi got very surprised. She saw the scar in Sangkuriang’s
forehead, and soon she knew that he was her son, who left her a long time ago. She told him the truth
and tried hard to explain it to him, but he did not believe her. She did not want to break his heart, so she
accepted his proposal but gave him an impossible thing to do. She wanted him to build a lake and a boat
in just one night!

Sangkuriang agreed, because he knew that he could make it with the help of his genies. By midnight he
finished the lake and then started making the boat. Dayang Sumbi was thinking hard to fi nd a way to fail
him. Before dawn, she asked the people in the village to burn the woods in the East, and the light made
all the cocks crow. Thinking that the night would be over soon, the genies ran fast and left Sangkuriang
before the boat was finished. Sangkuriang realized that Dayang Sumbi had cheated him. He got very
angry and he kicked the boat upside down. It gradually became a mountain and it is now known as Mt.
Tangkuban Perahu.

Pada suatu ketika di Jawa Barat, Indonesia, hiduplah seorang putri bernama
Dayang Sumbi. Dia cantik dan baik hati. Hobinya adalah menenun kain. Tapi
terkadang dia bisa menjadi sangat malas. Suatu hari alat tenunnya jatuh, namun
ia terlalu malas untuk mengambilnya sendiri. Dia berteriak, “Adakah yang bisa
membantu saya mendapatkan alat saya? Jika kamu perempuan, aku akan
menganggapmu sebagai saudara perempuanku. Jika kamu laki-laki, aku akan
menikahimu!”
Makhluk jantan datang, tapi itu seekor anjing. Namanya Tumang. Dia dengan
senang hati membawakan alat itu padanya. Dayang Sumbi sangat terkejut, namun
ia menepati janjinya. Dia menikah dengan anjing itu. Tumang sebenarnya adalah
seorang laki-laki yang dikutuk oleh penyihir menjadi seekor anjing. Namun pada
saat-saat tertentu Tumang bisa kembali menjadi manusia normal.
Putra tunggal mereka, Sangkuriang, segera lahir, dan ia tumbuh menjadi seorang
anak laki-laki yang tampan dan sehat. Ia selalu bermain dengan anjingnya yang
sangat setia, Tumang. Ia tidak mengetahui bahwa dirinya sebenarnya adalah
ayahnya, karena Dayang Sumbi menyembunyikan rahasia itu darinya.

Sangkuriang suka berburu di hutan, tentu saja bersama Tumang. Suatu hari
Dayang Sumbi memintanya untuk membawa pulang hati rusa. Namun, setelah berburu
selama beberapa hari, ia tidak menemukan satu pun rusa di hutan. Ia tidak
ingin mengecewakan ibunya dan berpikir keras bagaimana cara membawa pulang
hati rusa. Tiba-tiba, dia mendapat ide buruk. Dia membunuh Tumang! Kemudian,
ia membawa pulang hatinya dan memberikannya kepada Dayang Sumbi.
Sangkuring tidak bisa menipunya. Dia tahu itu adalah hati Tumang. Jadi, dia
menjadi sangat marah dan memukul dahi Sangkuriang dengan sepotong kayu dan
menyuruhnya pergi. Dengan luka parah di keningnya, Sangkuriang meninggalkan
desa.
Bertahun-tahun kemudian, Sangkuriang tumbuh menjadi seorang pria sakti. Suatu
hari dia kembali ke desanya. Dia bertemu dengan seorang wanita muda cantik di
sana, dan dia jatuh cinta padanya pada pandangan pertama. Itu adalah Dayang
Sumbi! Dia tidak pernah bertambah tua karena dia telah diberikan awet muda
oleh para dewa.
Sangkuriang tidak mengetahui bahwa dia adalah ibunya, jadi dia mendatanginya
dan melamarnya.

Ketika ia berjalan mendekatinya, Dayang Sumbi menjadi sangat terkejut. Dia

melihat bekas luka di dahi Sangkuriang, dan segera dia tahu bahwa dia adalah
putranya, yang telah lama meninggalkannya. Dia mengatakan yang sebenarnya dan
berusaha keras menjelaskannya kepadanya, tapi dia tidak mempercayainya. Dia
tidak ingin mematahkan hatinya, jadi dia menerima lamarannya tetapi memberinya
hal yang mustahil untuk dilakukan. Dia ingin dia membangun danau dan perahu
hanya dalam satu malam!

Sangkuriang menyetujuinya, karena ia tahu bahwa ia dapat berhasil dengan

bantuan jin-jinnya. Menjelang tengah malam dia menyelesaikan danau tersebut
dan kemudian mulai membuat perahu. Dayang Sumbi pun berpikir keras mencari
cara untuk menggagalkannya. Sebelum fajar, dia meminta penduduk desa untuk
membakar hutan di Timur, dan cahayanya membuat semua ayam berkokok. Berpikir
bahwa malam akan segera berakhir, jin-jin itu berlari kencang dan meninggalkan
Sangkuriang sebelum perahunya selesai. Sangkuriang menyadari bahwa Dayang
Sumbi telah menipunya. Dia menjadi sangat marah dan menendang perahu itu
hingga terbalik. Lambat laun menjadi sebuah gunung dan sekarang dikenal
sebagai Gunung Tangkuban Perahu.