(Kwentong bayan/Bicol) Salin ni Ms. Lilia F. Realubit Noong unang panahong wala pa ang mundo at isa lamang ang planeta – ang buwan. Sa planetang ito dalawang lahi ng tao ang nakatira, ang taong puti at ang taong itim. Ang mga puti ang Panginoon at iyong mga itim ang utusan. Ang mga puti ay magaganda: [...]

(“Myth of Bohol”) Salin ni Patrocinio V. Villafuerte Ang mga tao noon ay naninirahan sa kabila ng ulap. Isang araw, ang kaisa-isang anak na babae ng datu ay nagkasakit. Hindi mapalagay ang datu. “Tanod, may sakit ang anak ko. Humayo ka, papuntahin mo rito ang manggagamot. Ngayon din!”

Bukidnon (Mindanao) A long time ago there was a very big crab which crawled into the sea. And when he went in he crowded the water out so that it ran all over the earth and covered all the land. Now about one moon before this happened, a wise man had told the people that [...]

One day the Moon, who was a woman named Kabigat, sat out in the yard making a large copper pot. The copper was still soft and pliable like clay, and the woman squatted on the ground with the heavy pot against her knees while she patted and shaped it.

Visayan A hawk flying about in the sky one day decided that he would like to marry a hen whom he often saw on earth. He flew down and searched until he found her, and then asked her to become his wife. She at once gave her consent on the condition that he would wait [...]

Visayan Mr. Spider wanted to marry Miss Fly. Many times he told her of his love and begged her to become his wife, but she always refused for she did not like him. One day when she saw Mr. Spider coming again Miss Fly closed all the doors and windows of her house and made [...]

Igorot In the beginning there were no people on the earth. Lumawig, the Great Spirit, came down from the sky and cut many reeds. He divided these into pairs which he placed in different parts of the world, and then he said to them, “You must speak.” Immediately the reeds became people, and in each [...]