Three more tales from Dean S. Fansler's Filipino Popular Tales, in a fresh in-house rendering, told by Benedetto.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
The Magic Ring. Carlos, the poor son of the widow Carmen, answers the princess Florentina's careless insult with a bold claim about the Goddess of the Sea — and the king gives him one week to prove it, or hang. An eagle and the king of the fishes carry him to the goddess's home, and her diamond ring saves his life and wins him the princess. Told by Encarnacion Gonzaga, a Visayan from Jaro, Iloilo.
Maria and the Golden Slipper. Maria, treated as a servant by her stepmother Juana and her stepsisters Rosa and Damiana, is helped by her mother's spirit in the form of a crab: a magic tree dresses her for Prince Malecadel's ball, and the golden slipper she loses at midnight finds her again. Told by Dolores Zafra, a Tagalog from Pagsanjan, Laguna.
Abadeja. In Baybay, the beautiful Abadeja is set impossible tasks by her cruel stepmother — a white handkerchief to be washed black, a torn mat to be made whole — and a mysterious beautiful woman helps her each time. The chicken the stepmother kills leaves two feet that grow into a garden of pearls and gold dresses, and the ring from that garden brings Abadeja her marriage. A Visayan story from Leyte; Fansler prints no narrator's name for it.
A note on this part. These tales are told at their source weight: in The Magic Ring the king's hanging sentence stands as speech only, never carried out, and Carmen's death is a single clause of happiness at her son's wedding. In Maria and the Golden Slipper and in Abadeja, the stepmothers' whippings of the heroines stand in single clauses as the tales' premise of cruelty, with no suffering dwelt on; the crab and the chicken are killed in single summary clauses. This part makes no claim to the whole book: Tale 43, The Wicked Woman's Reward, stands stopped before it for the owner's by-name ruling, as Tales 17, 26, 27, 30, 33, 38 and 39 stand held or stopped from earlier gates.
Storytellers: Encarnacion Gonzaga · Dolores Zafra · (Abadeja: no narrator named in the book).
Chapters:
00:46 The Magic Ring
08:46 Maria and the Golden Slipper
14:55 Abadeja
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, "Feline Grace — Concert Hall Miniatures", with the same theme as a short separator between stories; no music under the narration.
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