Philippine Folktales

By Joanne Marie Igoy-Escalona

“The folktales are appropriate in terms of language because the mother-tongue is used in narrating/reading them. Studies have proven that learners who begin in their mother tongue have more efficient cognitive development and are better prepared for more cognitively demanding subject matter. They tend to be smarter if they start education using their mother tongue.”

— Joanne Marie Igoy-Escalona

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9789712731860

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Philippine Folktales

(English)

The stories contained in this book were adapted from the stories of Dean S. Fansler, Mabel Cook Cole, and others which originally appeared in the Project Gutenberg website and are part of the public domain.

The retellings/adaptations and translations of the stories are © Joanne Marie Igoy-Escalona and Anvil Publishing Inc., 2015.

The design and layout of the book were art directed by Katrina Guevarra and Ramón C. Sunico.

Illustrations copyright © Mary Cuenca, 2015.

The Teacher’s Guide was written by Ramón C. Sunico and Katrina Guevarra based on an outline provided by Joanne Marie Igoy-Escalona and are © Ramón C. Sunico, Katrina Guevarra, and Anvil Publishing Inc., 2015. It was translated into Filipino by Eilene G. Narvaez.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to acknowledge the following for sharing

their expertise in editing the seven other editions of

Philippine Folktales:

•  Genevieve Asenjo–Hiligaynon

•  Sergio Bumadilla–Pangasinense

•  Ma. Eloisa N. Francisco–Kapampangan

•  Haidee Palapar–Cebuano

•  Eilene G. Narvaez–Filipino

•  Clesencio B. Rambaud–Iloko

•  Paz Verdades M. Santos–Bikol

CONTENTS

Dean S. Fansler

The Golden Rule

Auac and Lamiran

The Dove and the Crow

The Lost Necklace

The Monkey and the Crocodile

The Story of Our Fingers

The Seven Humpbacks

Why the Cow’s Skin Is Loose Around Its Neck

The Trial among Animals

An Unequal Match: Or Why the Carabao’s Hoof Is Split

The Turtle and the Monkey

Maria and the Golden Slipper

Mabel Cook Cole

The Sun and the Moon

The Man with His Coconuts

How the Moon and the Stars Came to Be

The Carabao and the Snail

The First Monkey

The Battle of the Crabs

The President Who Had Horns

Why Dogs Wag Their Tails

Others

Children in the Woods

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

These stories that were translated into seven mother tongues (Tagalog, Iloko, Kapampangan, Bikol, Cebuano, and Hiligaynon) were taken from The Project Gutenberg e-book of Filipino Popular Tales by Dr. Dean S. Fansler, Philippine Folktales by Mabel Cook Cole, and Philippine Folktales by Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W.H. Millington, Hetchner Gardner, and Laura Watson Benedict. The original copyrights of Fansler’s and Cook’s books were in 1921 and 1916 respectively. The e-book versions for these books were released by Project Gutenberg on December 9, 2008 (Fansler), March 27, 2008 (Cole), and February 10, 2004 (Bayliss, Maxfield, Millington, Gardner, and Benedict). In the e-book versions, it was stated that the book is for the use of anyone, anywhere at no cost, with almost no restrictions whatsoever.

In the Preface to Fansler’s book, the author pointed out that the folktales were collected in the Philippines from 1908 to 1914. The language in which the stories