Three more tales from Dean S. Fansler's Filipino Popular Tales, in a fresh in-house rendering, told by Amos.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Juan and Maria. A poor beggar couple's cruel father drives his two children from home, and the brother and sister find shelter with a kind old woman in the forest. A black deer gives Juan golden armor, and a fighting cock hatched from Maria's egg wins at the cockpit — and both children rise to crowns of their own. Told by Anicio Pascual of Arayat, Pampanga.
The Enchanted Prince. A prince who loves a young witch is forced into another marriage, and the scorned witch turns his whole city into a forest and him into a monkey in the tallest tree. Four centuries pass before a heartbroken girl sits beneath that tree and loves him more than anything else. Told by Pedro D. L. Sorreta, a Bicol from Virac, Albay.
The Prince's Dream. A young king dreams of his father's hidden treasure of gold and diamonds, and the dream sends him to the city of Black, across a river by sphinx boat, to the palace of the king of the demons — who will unlock the last diamond chamber only for a maiden whose heart is untainted by any worldly passion. Told by Gregorio Frondoso, a Bicol of Tigaon, Camarines.
A note on this part. Juan and Maria is told at its source weight: the father's threats are speech only, never carried out, and the deer is killed at its own bidding, in a single summary passage, for the golden armor it promises. In The Enchanted Prince, two ladies who came before are said to have died of fright, and the girl beneath the tree wishes to die — both stated, neither attempted or dwelt on. In The Prince's Dream, the 1921 printing's period term for the wealthy man of the city of Black is rendered in neutral modern language throughout; the tale's demon king and ghost are folk figures, not sacred matter. This part makes no claim to the whole book: Tales 38 and 39 stand held and stopped before it, and Tale 43, The Wicked Woman's Reward, was stopped at this build's gate for the owner's by-name ruling, as Tales 17, 26, 27, 30 and 33 stand held or stopped from earlier gates.
Storytellers: Anicio Pascual · Pedro D. L. Sorreta · Gregorio Frondoso.
Chapters:
00:45 Juan and Maria
05:44 The Enchanted Prince
09:47 The Prince's Dream
Source: Dean S. Fansler (ed.), Filipino Popular Tales, Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Vol. XII (1921), Project Gutenberg eBook #8299 — public domain; fresh in-house rendering. Fansler's comparative notes are not read. Music: opening and closing theme, "Cypress in the Soil 2", with the same theme as a short separator between stories; no music under the narration.
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