So read on and discover for yourself these delightful tales from around the world. Some of these are oral tales that we have collected and retold some have been collected by other folklorists around the world and already exist in written form in the public domain - these we have retold and reproduced. We present here folktales from all over the world. Such folk heroes are many and varied - like the trickster bunny, Br’er Rabbit from the southern United States, the spider Anansi from West Africa, and the wise and clever Birbal, minister to Akbar, emperor of India. The Broken Pot is similar to Aesops The Milkmaid and Her Pail, 53 The Gold-Giving Snake is similar to Aesops The Man and the Serpent and Le Paysan et Dame serpent by Marie de France ( Fables) 54 Other well-known stories include The Tortoise and The Geese and The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal. Be careful, lest she get the better of you! Another recurring character type is the village fool, or the idiot youngest son, who ultimately turns out to be the wisest. Sometimes a particular character or group of characters grab our imaginations, and dozens of tales may then be told about them. Folktales may also centre around favourite character types – like the old woman who is usually clever, sometimes grumpy, sometimes with a wicked sense of humour. Often, myth and folklore overlap, and gods and demons rub shoulders happily with ordinary men and women. Sometimes folktales seek to explain the world around us. Sometimes they tell of real people and events, as in the story of Dick Whittington. In the modern world, as the tradition of oral story-telling is giving way to books and television, that such tales are being collected and written down.
Find this story in Tahanan Books’ Why The Piña Has A Hundred Eyes and Other Classic Philippine Folk Tales About Fruits, available at National Bookstore, Fully Booked, and The Learning Basket. Folktales are stories passed on from one person to another by word of mouth. For Ong, the story of the piña is a cautionary tale for both parent and child.
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