Story summary
Краткое содержание: Филиппинские народные сказки
- Чтение: 8 мин.
- 10 parts
- Аудио скоро
A lazy boy fakes fortune-telling for a princess's ring while a tiny glutton roams with a five-yard bolo.
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Филиппинские народные сказки — кратко о книге
Краткое содержание: 8 min на чтение
- Время чтения
- Около 13 h 30 min10 h 45 min fast, 16 h 5 min slow
- Длительность
- Слов: 193 100
- Уровень в библиотеке
- Сложное чтение long sentences, a rich vocabulary
- Первая публикация
- 1921by Дин Спруилл Фэнслер (составитель)
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Филиппинские народные сказки in short
Filipino Popular Tales gathers stories written down by students for Dean Spruill Fansler between 1908 and 1914. It moves from comic heroes like Suan and Juan, through strong dwarfs, giants, thieves, and clever girls, to romances, moral sketches, and animal fables. After most tales, a note follows the plot across India, Arabia, Spain, and northern Europe.
What Филиппинские народные сказки is about
Imagine a boy who skips school, climbs a tree by the road, and watches his mother walk home from the market. He tells her what she bought, and she decides he can see hidden things. Soon a princess loses a ring, a king offers her hand, and the boy's life hangs on a guess.
That is the first tale in Filipino Popular Tales, edited by Dean Spruill Fansler and published in 1921. Tellers from many regions recount tales heard from grandmothers, nurses, and farmers, and the credits often identify their regional backgrounds. Fansler adds notes that follow each story to India, Arabia, Spain, and northern Europe.
Для кого. Readers who love fairy tales, tricksters, giants, clever princesses, and talking animals will feel at home here, as will anyone curious about how one story travels between lands.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
Luck can make a fool look like a seer
The first tale is told in several forms, and the hero is called Suan or Juan. He is a lazy son who quits school and wants a living without work. His trick is simple. He spies on his mother, then names what she cooked for supper. Neighbors begin to call him a diviner.
In one Tagalog version he hides his father's plough in a creek, draws shapes on paper, and chants a rhyme that points to the hiding place. Word spreads that Suan is good at guessing. Then the king's daughter loses a ring, and the king promises her hand to the finder. Anyone who fails will lose his head. Suan's proud mother volunteers her son without asking him. On the royal carriage ride, Suan cries out that death is at hand, and the coachman, who stole the ring, thinks he has been found out.
Later a rich rival bets a boatload of gold that Suan cannot count the seeds in his melons. Suan rows out to drown himself and overhears the answer from the rival's ship instead. Fansler shows that the tale matches Dr. Knowall in Grimm and stories from Arabia. The joke is that fear can do a man's talking for him. A reputation can grow far bigger than any skill.
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A magic purse is lost to a clever princess
A king wants ten carloads of money for ten days running.
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A tiny glutton proves stronger than giants
Carancal is born to a childless couple after years of prayer.
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Cooks left alone meet a hungry giant
A scene appears again and again in this book.
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Quick answers beat kings who set traps
Several tales show a low-born person outwitting a ruler.
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Thieves and cheats keep the upper hand
The tale of Zaragoza is a master thief story.
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Kindness earns helpers with strange powers
Many Filipino tales give a poor hero a charm after an act of kindness.
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Romances from Europe become local favorites
A good part of the book looks back to Europe.
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Fools, hunchbacks, and lessons about family
Juan the Fool follows his mother's advice too literally.
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Animals, origins, and a scholar's map
The later sections hold fables, animal stories, and just-so stories.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Suan A lazy, quick-witted boy who fakes fortune-telling and finds his luck rising with each guess.
- Carancal A span-long baby who grows into a four-foot glutton of great strength and sets out with a huge bolo.
- Marcela A clever daughter of a royal servant who answers the king's impossible tests with sharper ones.
- Zaragoza A thief who tricks a king, a merchant, and a hermit, and aims at a title.
- Juan Manalaksan A poor woodcutter who is given a magic glass and later needs a cat to win it back.
- Don Juan A kind young man whose care for the dead brings him six gifted companions for a royal wager.
- The Turtle A quiet and clever creature who answers a greedy monkey's insults with a plan.
How it ends (spoiler)
The book closes with notes and a supplementary bibliography, and its last tale is a comic race. A carabao scorns a turtle, who challenges him over seven hills. The turtle posts a friend on each hilltop, so the carabao finds a rival ahead at every turn. At the seventh hill the furious carabao kicks the turtle, whose shell is unharmed, but the blow splits the carabao's own hoof.
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Вопросы о книге Филиппинские народные сказки
Who collected the tales in Filipino Popular Tales?
Dean Spruill Fansler edited them. The tales were collected between 1908 and 1914, and the book credits tellers, often identifying their province or community. It was published in 1921.
Are the stories really Filipino or borrowed from elsewhere?
Both. Fansler shows that many tales share plots with Grimm, India, and Arabia, but local details make them Filipino. He weighs which are native, meaning present before the Spaniards arrived, and which were imported.
Who are Suan and Juan in these tales?
They are common hero names. Suan or Juan may be a lazy trickster, a poor woodcutter, or a clever servant, and the same name appears in many different plots across the book.
Как сослаться на это издание
Filipino Popular Tales. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/filipino-popular-tales.
Filipino popular tales. (2026). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/filipino-popular-tales (Original work published 1921)
Filipino Popular Tales. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/filipino-popular-tales.
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