Week 9 Reading Notes: Filipino Popular Tales (Reading A)

Three Brothers of Fortune

  1. The Three Friends: the Monkey, the Dog, and the Carabao
    • All three against the Buñgisñgis, Monkey ended up being the smartest
      • but got his two friends killed 
    • The theme of monkeys being smartest tricksters
  2. Three Brothers of Fortune
    • Not the message I thought it would send 
    • The last brother got the better end 
      • he didn't pay for the charm 
  3. The Clever Husband and Wife
    • Again, very different ending 
    • Doesn't have a moral really, much like the rest 
    • Sort of sends the message to always be honest to those close?
  4. The Devil and the Guachinango
    • guachinango ends up with the most
    • Starts with the old woman and her daughter looking for a husband, ends with devil and guachinango
    • Very good ratio of dialogue to narration 
  5. Chonguita
    • Begins to be like three brothers of fortune
    • Three brothers 
      • two marry women 
      • one marries a monkey
        • monkey does better at tasks 
        • so Don Juan, who is married to a monkey, is crowned king 
          • Monkey turns to a beautiful woman 
  6. Cochinango
    • Gain the best knowledge from people you meet along the way 
    • staying in small circles can make you ignorant 
  7. The Enchanted Prince
    • God always has a plan no matter how astray it may go 
      • Also, don't go back on promises 
  8. The Wicked Woman’s Reward
    • Dark king woman relationship 
      • Concubines 
      • Whoever had a male the king would marry
    • Do not act and jump to accusations
  9. The Poor Man and his Three Sons
    • always either a poor man, poor king with three sons 
      • each always has to discover their fortune 
        • Could be a good story basis, just so repetitive 
    • This one at least had a moral to it at the end 
        • odd new use of cats and rats
  10. The Monkey and the Turtle
    • Monkey always takes advantage 
      • and acts impulsively 
    • Type of tortoise and the hair story just regionally cultured 
      • and expanded on
  11. The Monkey and the Crocodile
    • Another story that had a clear moral
      • kind of helps to put the other ones with out morals into perspective
      • "Use your own judgment; do not rely on the counsel of others, for it is the father of destruction and ruin."
    • Trust yourself 
  12. The Monkeys and the Dragon-Flies
    • I like that it was a battle between the two 
    • monkies are always more confident than hey should be 
    • dragonflies outsmarted the monkies 
  13. The Monkey, the Turtle, and the Crocodile
    • Starts off by saying how the monkey typically is deceiving 
    • Turtle and Crocodile befriend the devious monkey 
      • they both had to escape a plantation 
      • turtle slows down crocodile 
    • Had a moral again 
      • Never trust a new friend or an old enemy 

Fansler, Dean. “Filipino Popular Tales.” Myth-Folklore Unit: Filipino Popular Tales, 1921,          mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/myth-folklore-unit-filipino-popular.html.

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