User blog:The Amazing AmaZeMenTS/Filipino Fairy Tales and Legends

My country is very rich with great stories, and I feel like they should be explored more. Some of them are kinda weird, but most fairytales are. They make good character concepts, if you decide to think about it.

Why Fishes Have Scales


 * Once there was a very beautiful girl who was born to a farmer and his wife. She was so beautiful that her parents refused to let her do any work. She grew up to be vain and spoiled. One day, as she was by the river admiring her reflection, the chief of the crabs was drawn to her beauty and spoke to her. The girl screamed and drove the ugly crab away. Humiliated, the chief of the crabs scratched the girl’s face with his claws and cursed her to become a fish covered with scales. This is why it is said that instead of admiring their reflection, fishes dart around and avoid it.  personally i want to do this story to because

Why The Sky is So High


 * In the early days, the sky hung low and people could easily reach the clouds. Inday, a beautiful girl who was given family heirlooms for her sixteenth birthday, loved to wear her precious necklace and comb even while she worked. One day, as she was husking rice with a mortar and a pestle, she put her jewelry on a cloud to avoid spoiling them. As she pounded on the rice with her pestle, one end also pounded the sky. Before she knew it, the sky went up high with her heirloom pieces. In time, her comb became the quarter moon and the beads of her necklace became the stars.

The Monkey and The Turtle


 * A monkey and a turtle were once friends. One day, they saw a banana-plant floating on the water. They decided to split it and planted each half. Monkey thought the top part was better, so he planted it and watched in dismay as it died. Turtle planted the roots and was rewarded with a fine tree with fruits. But since he could not climb to get the bananas himself, he asked Monkey to get it for him.The cunning simian, however, ate all of the fruits! In retaliation, Turtle put sticks around the tree and then tricked Monkey to go down, killing him. Monkey’s friends then tried to exact revenge on Turtle, who deceived them into throwing him into the lake, his home.

Why Black, White and Brown are Our Colors


 * Bathala, who was the old Filipino deity, was making man. He had reated the mold and just had to cook it. While he was cooking it in his pan, he got bored and left to do other things. Then he came back a long while after, realizing he had overcooked the man that he became black. So Bathala tried again, this time getting far too watchful over the man, that he had undercooked it and it had become white. So overcooked black people and undercooked white men ruled the earth. Then Bathala decided to try again, this time actually watching the man carefully. And he had cooked it into what he saw to be the perfect color: the brown race.  this story can have characters such as the next bathala, or the next black people or white or brown

There are more stories that I can't remember, but I may continually update this because we have amazing stories.