This is an interesting Folk tales from Philippines. The Philippines is in the south-east country in Asia, situated in the western Pacific Ocean. The culture and the heritage of Philippines are so much rich and wealthy. This folk tale is collected from the book “Philippine Folk Tales”. The author of this folk tales story book was “Mabel Cook Cole” and it was published from “A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago” in 1916.
How the Tinguian Learned to Plant
- A Filipino Folktale
In the very old times the Tinguian did not know how to plant and harvest as they now do. For food they had only the things that grew in the forests and fish from the streams. They did not know how to cure people who became ill or were injured by the evil spirits neither and many people died who might otherwise have lived.
Then Kadaklan, the Great Spirit who lives in the sky, saw that the people often were hungry and sick. Then Kadaklan sent one of his servants, Kaboniyan, to the earth to teach them many things. And it happened this way.
