FolktalesA folktale (also spelled folk tale) is a story or legend forming part of an

oral tradition. Folktales are generally passed down from one generation to another and often

take on the characteristics of the time and place in which they are

told

  1. Folk tales help people to better understand general conditions of human since folk tales are sources of constructed perceptions, beliefs, paradigm, fear, fun, formality, and others.          2. Folk tales are implicitly regarded as a boundary of people in the society to perceive whether things are right or wrong. Even the state’s law could not equally force the minds of human. The reason is that people have been raised with such discipline since their childhood.           3. Folk tales enable human to learn local lifestyles by considering that the folklore is a living basis of a particular nation or a group of people.          4. Folk tales are national heritage and culture. They are stories about human’s ways of lives in each nation or language and have traditionally been followed through generations.           5. Folk tales are both arts and sciences. Being the origin of various sciences has even more widened learning in other fields of study.           6. Folk tales bring people’s pride of their locality so that they would perceive that they have something in common. Such attitudes greatly lead to people’s unity and harmony.          7. Folk tales are sources of entertainment for human.

Importance

The Sun and the Moon

Once upon a time the Sun and the Moon were married, and they had many children who were the stars. The Sun was

very fond of this children, but whenever he tried to embrace any of them, he was so hot that he burned them up. This made the Moon so angry that finally she forbade him to

touch them again, and he was greatly grieved.One day the Moon went down to the spring to do some

washing, and when she left she told the sun that he must not touch any of their children in her in had perished.

She was very angry, and picked up a banana tree to strike him, whereupon he threw sand in her face, and to this day

you can see the dark marks on the face of the Moon.Then the Sun started to chase her, and they have been

going ever since. Sometimes he gets so near that he almost catches her, but she escapes, and bay and bay she is far

ahead again.absence. When she returned, however, she found that he

had disobeyed her, and several of the children

The origin of Bagobo

In the beginning there lived one man and one woman, Toglai and Toglibon. Their first children were a boy and a girl.

When they were old enough, the boy and the girl went far away across the waters seeking a good place to live in. Nothing more was heard of them until their children, the Spaniards and Americans, came back.

After the first boy and girl left, other children were born to the couple, but they all remained at Cibolan on Mt. Apo with their parents, until Toglai and Toglibon died and became spirits.

Soon after that there came a great drought which lasted for three years. All the waters dried up, so that there were no rivers, and no plants could live.

"Surely," said the people, "Manama is punishing us and we must go elsewhere to find food and a place to dwell in."

So they started out. Two went in the direction of the sunset, carrying with them stones from Cibolan River.

After a long journey they reached a place where were broad fields of cogon grass and an abundance of water, and there they made their home.

Their children still live in that place and are called Magindanau, because of the stones which the couple carried when they left Cibolan.

Two children of Toglai and Toglibon went to the south, seeking a home, and they carried with them women's baskets (baraan). When they found a good spot, they settled down.

Their descendants, still dwelling at that place, are called Baraan or Bilaan, because of the women's baskets.

So two by two the children of the first couple left the land of their birth. In the place where each settled a new people developed, and thus it came about that all the tribes in the world received their names from things that the people carried out of Cibolan, or from the places where they settled.

All the children left Mt. Apo save two (a boy and a girl), whom hunger and thirst had made too weak to travel.. 

One day when they were about to die the boy crawled out to the field to see if there was one living thing, and to his surprise he found a stalk of sugar-cane growing lustily.

He eagerly cut it, and enough water came out to refresh him and his sister until the rains came. Because of this, their children are called Bagobo