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

The Humming-bird and the Carabao

  1. 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 
  2. 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 
  3. The Greedy Crow
    • Has another moral
    • Follows greed the same as most stories 
      • be happy for what you have 
  4. 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 
  5. 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 
  6. 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 
  7. 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 
  8. 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 
  9. 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
  10. 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 
  11. 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 
  12. 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..
  13. 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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