Philippine Folktales
An Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9339124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Damiana L Eugenio (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-155 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Folklore Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0385-2342 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1178506 |
| OpenAlex | W111348345 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 6 |
art of storytelling has been cultivated in all ages and among all nations of which we have any record; it is the outcome of an instinct implanted universally in the human mind. With this observation, Edwin Sidney Hartland opens his now classic work, The Science of Fairy Tales (Hartland 1891: 2). Filipinos share this love of storytelling, and this essay attempts to give an overall view of one form that the folk story has taken in the Philippine setting: the folktale. But before going any further, a clarification of terms is necessary. In the Philippines and elsewhere, the term has been used in a broad and literal sense to mean any short narrative in prose told orally among the folk. In this paper, however, will be used to mean only fictional folk narratives in prose, following William Bascom's distinctions among myth, legend, and folktale given below: Myths are prose narratives which, in the society in which they are told, are considered to be truthful accounts of what happened in the remote past. They are accepted on faith; they are taught to be believed; and they can be cited as authority in answer to ignorance, doubt, or disbelief. Myths are the embodiment of dogma; they are usually sacred; and they are often associated with theology and ritual. Their main characters are not usually human beings, but they often have human attributes; they are animals, deities, culture heroes, whose actions are set in an earlier world, when the earth was different from what it is today, or in another world such as the sky or underworld. Myths account for the origin of the
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0.27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |