Pabula or Fable in Filipino is a literary genre which uses animals plants legendary creatures and inanimate objects as characters.

Example of fable story in the philippines. The Hawk and the Hen. FILIPINO FABLES are about animals and inanimate beings made to speak and act like rational beings and pointing out morals. 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.

The Igorot tales are tales of creation with stories explaining how people originated. On the way home he met a boy whom he asked how long it would take to reach the house. For Ong the story of the piña is a cautionary tale for both parent and child.

The Story of the Piña This Philippine legend tells the story of how the Pineapple fruit got so many eyes. Tuko and the Birds. However some of the characters reappear in the stories under a different name.

The fables can share elements with other nations stories but also offers a look into the. Their parents were very fond of them and nothing was wanting to make them happy. A succinct fictional story in prose or verse that features animals legendary creatures plants inanimate objects or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson a moral which may at the end be added explicitly as.

Another collection of folk tales from Coles collection are Filipino fables. A Tale from the Philippines is a story about a Tuko arriving in a peaceful small Philippine island of Luzon. But if you go fast it will take you all day.

A hawk flying about in the sky one day decided that he would like to marry a hen whom he often saw on earth. The Philippine Cinderella This story narrates the live of a girl who wept and prayed and saw a beautiful woman who took her worries away. ItвЂs quite a bleak fable as opposed to the morally uplifting fables written by Aesop and others.