Philippine Folk Tales by Mable Cook Cole

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Philippine Folk Tales is a book by Mabel Cook Cole, first published in 1916. This early-20th-century anthology gathers traditional stories collected during anthropological fieldwork across the islands, presenting myths, origin tales, trickster episodes, and cosmological legends from Visayan, Tagalog, and other Philippine traditions. Written with the popular reader in mind, Cole’s retellings balance faithful ethnographic detail with a clear narrative voice, making the material accessible to both general readers and students of folklore and comparative mythology. The collection is valuable as one of the more comprehensive English-language compilations of Philippine oral literature from that period, offering insight into indigenous belief, ritual, and star-myth motifs that later scholars have mined for cultural and ethnoastronomical study. Readers interested in Philippine folklore, mythology, traditional stories, and colonial-era ethnography will find this volume a useful historical resource and a charming compendium of tales passed down through generations.

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