Week 9 Reading Notes: Filipino Popular Tales (Reading B)
The Humming-bird and the Carabao |
- The Iguana and the Turtle
- later into the Filipino tales, morals are shared at the end
- This one was more difficult to figure out
- do not trust so easily
- the one who trusts foolishly will be injured
- This time the turtle was the trickster so that's a change
- Why Mosquitoes Hum
- explains that a long time ago, people believed tales that gave great meaning to things
- yet it starts with the story of a crab
- he said she said type story
- The Greedy Crow
- Has another moral
- Follows greed the same as most stories
- be happy for what you have
- The Humming-bird and the Carabao
- Humming-bird played a trick on the carabo to drink the most water
- had knowledge of the tide
- mostly narration
- The Ant
- Started to seem like Mary and Joseph with the snake and god
- God almost gave the same poison to ants as snakes
- then realized how much of a force ants are
- Why the Sun Shines more Brightly than the Moon
- I always enjoyed the stories that provide a reason to things in life
- Cute story, little narrative
- I liked gods influence on the story
- The Hawk and the Coling
- Gives the reason why the coling looks the way it does
- it beat the hawk in a race towards the sky and burned its head on the moon
- Why the Cow’s Skin is Loose
- because it put on the carabos clothes after they bathed running away from their humans
- good ratio of narrative to dialogue
- The Lost Necklace
- gives a cute reason for why chicks follow their mother hens around
- they are looking for a necklace that they lost
- it belonged to the crow
- if they dont find it the crow takes a chick every day
- The Story of our Fingers
- The thumb is on the side because it proposed that the hand steal in order to feed itself
- the pinky is skinny because it doesn't have enough to each, which sparked the whole debate
- I enjoyed giving the fingers a narration
- Why Snails Climb Up Grass
- He is looking for his friends the wasp the mud fish and the dragon fly
- he cries while he goes and leaves a slight trail
- Cuttlefish and Squids
- they were late to a meeting so were cursed to carry mud with them to make them slow
- they said they would have to stay the same size as they were then but there are giant squid.. so..
- Why the Ocean is Salty
- because that was the material being used to build bridges
- it took so long ocean got impatient and destroyed the bridges to then have salt dissolve into the water
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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