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A man who was watching the fish he was drying under the sun fell asleep. Two hungry cats that were looking for food saw the fish on the tray. They hid themselves in the bush near the wooden bench where the tray was. Then they talked between themselves who was going to get the fish on the tray. The white one prodded the yellow one to go and take ...
The First Banana Plant is a Philippine folklore on the most cultivated herbaceous plant in Asia, the banana. From the story's character Aging, "saging" was coined. Once upon a time there lived in a small hut at the edge of a forest a father and son. The poverty of that family gave the son his name,—Juan the Poor.
Suan was a clever, sharp-witted boy. His mother sent him to school. Instead of going to school, however, Suan climbed up the tree that stood by the roadside. As soon as his mother had passed by from the market, Suan hurried home ahead of her. When she reached home, he cried, “Mother, I know what you bought in the market to-day.”.
The Three Brothers. There was once an old woman who had three sons. The father died when Tito, the youngest brother, was only five years old; and the mother was left alone to bring up her three boys. The family was very poor; but the good woman worked hard, and her sons grew into sturdy young men. One day the mother called her sons before her ...
Juan Tamad is subsequently crowned king of Spain. As evinced in its plot details, Bühay appropriates several narrative elements from clerical and secular literature to transform Juan Tamad from the subversive trickster of the local imagination to a Westernized romantic hero trapped in the verses of a colonial literary genre. In order to ...
The Manglalabas. Once upon a time, in the small town of Balubad, there was a big house. It was inhabited by a rich family. When the head of the family died, the house was gloomy and dark. The family wore black clothes, and was sad. Three days after the death of the father, the family began to be troubled at night by a manglalabas.
Pablo and the Princess. Once upon a time there lived three friends,—Pedro, Juan, and Pablo. One morning they met at the junction of three roads. While they were talking, Pedro said, “Let each of us take one of these roads and set out to find his fortune! there is nothing for us to do in our town.”. The other two agreed.
