Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Week 6 Reading Diary: Filipino Popular Tales Continued

Filipino Tales by Dean Fansler

Iguana and turtle are friends, iguana tricks turtle into taking his place several times. Sherrif wonders why people are laughing outside of his house at night. Do not be greedy, crow loses his meat whenever trying to chase a small bird that he cannot catch. Hummingbird tricks water buffalo into thinking that he can drink more water than him. God makes the ants bite not as poisonous as snake as punishment for disobedience. God makes two jewels in the sky. The reason hens peck at the ground is searching for the cows necklace that the other hens lost. The ocean is salty because of the broken salt blocks.


Land crab from "Why the Mosquitos Hum"
Source: UnTextbook

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