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Mythology & Folklore
(Spec 325)
Submitted by:
Flordelis B. Lisao BSED 3- F
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Mrs. Charess Joy Dela Cruz
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MYTHOLOGY
: the myths of a particular group or culture
: ideas that are believed by many people but that are not true
: an allegorical narrative
: a body of myths dealing with the gods, demigods, and legendary heroes of a particular
people
: a popular belief or assumption that has grown up around someone or something
2.
FOLKLORE
: traditional customs, tales, sayings, dances, or art forms preserved among a people
: a branch of knowledge that deals with folklore
: an often unsupported notion, story, or saying that is widely circulated
3.
LEGEND
: a story from the past that is believed by many people but cannot be proved to be true
: a famous or important person who is known for doing something extremely well
: a list that explains the symbols on a map
4.
FAIRYTALE
: a story (as for children) involving fantastic forces and beings (as fairies, wizards, and
goblins) called also fairy story
: a story in which improbable events lead to a happy ending
: a made-up story usually designed to mislead
Examples of Myth
fruits were very edible and delicious. Since then, the villagers started planting more lanzones
trees and it became a very lucrative source of income for everyone, the myth adds.
Nobody from the town wanted to talk about where the bell was, so the bandits killed all the
people. Finding nothing, the bandits left frustrated. When they have left the people of the
neighboring town came and buried them. At the back of the church, they found a small plant
growing on the spot where the golden bell was buried. It grew into a big tree and bore bellshaped fruits which the people from the next town called macopa because it resembled the gold
bell.
the myth he was of royal descent but had been lost when he was three. His father was killed by
his greedy uncle. The myth says that the princess said, We love each other, thats all that
matters.
The myth says a general was very jealous of Wata. So, that night, in the dark corner of the
palace, he and his aides waited for the young lovers. The myth says the general suddenly
emerged, struck Wata-Mama and beheaded him. The princess, fearless, picked up Watas head.
After Watas head was buried, the myth says, early one morning, while the princess was
watching the spot, she saw a tiny plant growing from the ground. Suddenly, the myth says, it
grew into a tree and reached the height of the window where the princess was sitting at. It
produced a round fruit the size of a mans head.
Examples of Folklore
The Story of the Pia
( Why The Pia Has A Hundred Eyes )
Pinang was a beautiful but lazy girl. One day, her mother got sick and asked her to cook
food for them. Having never really done anything around the house, Pinang refused at first. She
finally relented through her mothers insistent shouting, but had trouble finding the ladle.
Frustrated, Pinangs mother wished a hundred eyes to grow on her for being so lazy. After this,
Pinang was never seen again. A strange yellow fruit with a hundred eyes, however, was soon
found growing in their backyard.
The Monkey and the Turtle
A monkey and a turtle were once friends. One day, they saw a banana-plant floating on the
water. They decided to split it and planted each half. Monkey thought the top part was better, so
he planted it and watched in dismay as it died. Turtle planted the roots and was rewarded with a
fine tree with fruits. But since he could not climb to get the bananas himself, he asked Monkey to
get it for him.The cunning simian, however, ate all of the fruits! In retaliation, Turtle put sticks
around the tree and then tricked Monkey to go down, killing him. Monkeys friends then tried to
exact revenge on Turtle, who deceived them into throwing him into the lake, his home.
The Necklace and the Comb
In the early days, the sky hung low and people could easily reach the clouds. Inday, a
beautiful girl who was given family heirlooms for her sixteenth birthday, loved to wear her
precious necklace and comb even while she worked. One day, as she was husking rice with a
mortar and a pestle, she put her jewelry on a cloud to avoid spoiling them. As she pounded on the
rice with her pestle, one end also pounded the sky. Before she knew it, the sky went up high with
her heirloom pieces. In time, her comb became the quarter moon and the beads of her necklace
became the stars
The downpour continued late in the night, the next morning though, the sky was clear and
blue. The couple came to tend their orchard and were bewildered to find their entire orchard
gone. Instead, there was water everywhere. When they looked down into the water, they could
still see their precious trees at the bottom of the lake.
Later, Anina asked her father what it was all about, and the king finally broke down. There
had long been a seven-headed dragon threatening the kingdom, and the monster could only be
appeased if an unblemished maiden was sacrificed to it.
In fear, all the women in the kingdom had cut themselves to disqualify themselves from the
sacrifice. Parents cut their own baby girls so as to spare the infants from the sacrifice. But the
king and the queen couldn't bring themselves to mar their daughter's beauty, and so Anina was
the only remaining unscarred female in the kingdom.
Anina did not weep. Instead, she willingly offered herself for the sacrifice. Fortuitously, on
the day she was to be brought to the mountain where the dragon lived, a man calling himself
Khan Laon appeared. (Khan in his language meant a noble lord.) He said he came from a
kingdom far away in order to slay the dragon and spare Anina's life.
No one believed the dragon could be killed, but Khan Laon insisted that his ability to talk to
animals would help him. He asked the help of the ants, the bees and the eagles.
The ants swarmed over the dragon's body and crept under its scales to bite its soft,
unprotected flesh, while the bees stung the fourteen eyes of the dragon till it was blind. The
largest eagle carried Khan Laon to the mountain where he was able to easily chop off the seven
heads of the writhing beast.
In gratitude, the king gave Khan Laon his daughter Anina to be his bride, and the people
named the mountain after the noble lord.
Examples of Fairytale
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood (LRRH) went to the forest to visit her ill granny. She took some
cake and lemonade in a basket. She met a wicked wolf that asked her which path she was taking.
She replied, Im taking the path that leads to my granny's cottage.
While LRRH was busy picking flowers to take to her granny, the wolf went to the cottage
and swallowed granny in one gulp. Then the wolf put on granny's cap, got in granny's bed,
covered up in blankets, and settled in to wait. LRRH arrived at the cottage and came into
granny's bedroom.
The wolf swallowed LLRH in one gulp and then fell asleep. A woodsman came by while the
wolf was still asleep. The woodsman cut the wolf open with his ax and out popped Granny and
LRRH. Then the woodsman, Granny, and LRRH all sat down by the fire and enjoyed cake and
lemonade.
Pinocchio
An lonely old carpenter named Geppetto made a puppet out of some wood, a ball, and a
string. That night, a fairy visited and cast a spell that made the puppet walk and talk. The next
morning, Geppetto discovered the animated puppet and named him Pinocchio. Geppetto gave
Pinocchio all of his money and sent him into town to buy books for school. Instead, Pinocchio
used to the money to buy a ticket for the circus. Two clowns gave Pinocchio a hat and asked him
to stay, but he said he must go back to Geppetto.
The clowns returned Pinocchio's money, but on the way home he was robbed by an evil cat
and an equally evil fox. The fairy appeared again and asked what happened Pinocchio pretended
he had been captured by a monster. Suddenly his nose grew, and the fairy said, whenever you lie,
your nose will get bigger.
Pinocchio was rowing a small boat in the sea when he thought he heard Geppetto is voice
coming from inside a large dark cave. He rowed inside, only to find himself inside a whale with
Geppetto. He tickled the whale with a feather, and the whale sneezed, sending Pinocchio and
Geppetto flying out on to the beach. Relived, Pinocchio vowed never to lie again and then he
heard the fairy's voice saying, make that promise and you will become a real boy.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and his mother were hungry. The cow in the barn gave them milk, but they needed
food.so Jack's mother told him to sell the cow in the market and Jack volunteered to take the cow
to town. Along the way, Jack met a farmer who talked him into giving up the cow in exchange
for a handful of good luck beans.
When Jack returned home, his mother was very cross because they lost their cow for a few
beans. She threw the beans out the window and went to bed. The beans began to grow straight up
into the sky, so Jack climbed the beanstalk hoping to find good luck at the top.
Sleeping Beauty
A king and a queen had been trying to have a child for years. When the child finally arrived,
they called her Aurora. A great holiday was proclaimed to celebrate Aurora's birth. Visitors came
from far and wide.
The three good fairies began bestowing their gifts upon Aurora. Aurora received the gift of
Beauty, and gift of Song but before the last gift was bestowed, a wicked fairy interrupted. This
wicked fairy was upset that she wasn't invited to the party, so she cast a spell on the day of
Aurora's 16th birthday, she would prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die.
The third good fairy hadn't bestowed her gift yet, and she was horrified at the spell the
wicked fairy cast. The good fairy wasn't strong enough to undo the spell, but she was able to
dilute it a bit instead of death, Aurora would fall asleep until her true love come along to undo
the spell with a kiss.
As a precaution, all spinning wheels were removed from the kingdom, and Aurora lived in
hiding as a peasant with the good fairies for protection. She grew up, met Prince Philip, and fell
in love. On the night of Aurora's 16th birthday, Aurora, Prince Philip, and the good fairies all
went back to the castle to live. But the evil fairy snuck into the castle and pricked Aurora's finger
with a needle, causing her to fall asleep. With the help of the good fairies, Prince Philip kissed
her and she awoke. They all lived happily ever after.
Cinderella
There once was a widower who remarried. His second wife was ill-natured, and she had two
daughters who were just as unpleasant as their mother. The man had a beautiful, gentle daughter
of his own, and she was soon to become the servant of her evil step-mother and step-sisters.
They made her do all the chores around the house, and she was named Cinderella, after the
cinders she swept out of the fireplace.
The King needed to find a queen for his prince, so he threw a huge ball. The evil stepmother and step-sisters were invited, but Cinderella was not allowed to go. After they left,
Cinderella's fairy godmother appeared and changed her dirty rags into a beautiful gown with
glass slippers. Next the fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a coach and some mice into
footmen. Before Cinderella left, the fairy godmother warned her to be home before midnight,
because the spell would only last till then.
Cinderella was a hit at the ball. The prince fell in love with her and asked her name. Just
then the clock struck midnight, and Cinderella ran away. She was in such a hurry, she lost one of
her glass slippers. It was the only clue the prince had to find his true love. He went to every
home in the kingdom and had every single young girl try on the slipper to see if it fit. The evil
step-sisters couldn't fit the slipper, but Cinderella did. The prince married her and they all lived
happily ever after.