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Author: Maximo D. Ramos Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781544056531 Category : Languages : en Pages : 162
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The Aswang Complex in Philippine Folklore: With Illustrative Accounts in Vernacular Texts and Translations.This book is a bold attempt to present to the reader and to students of Filipino society and culture one of the dominant Filipino beliefs, the aswang. For some strange reason the belief has never been explored for its usefulness in the field of literature or social studies. Even educators shy away from it, branding the belief as superstitious and therefore hot to be perpetuated. While this view is entertained, however, there is continued use in the schools-including the nursery schools-of Western tales like "Hansel and Gretel," 'Rapunzel," "Snow White," and so forth, dealing with witches, dwarfs, and other people of lower mythology. It is sad to note that while we accept these stories as entertaining to our children, we reject our own folktales about equivalent characters as superstitious and undesirable.It is about time that we changed our perspective, that we accepted our own literary heritage and used it if we are to make education meaningful to our children. Maximo D. Ramos has provided us with one way to achieve this. Of course the present volume is only one of his many works on Philippine folklore.While he presents the materials in this book as folklore, these can also be regarded as ethnographic data in that they deal with one of the dominant aspects of Filipino folk culture. The aswang belief may be viewed as socially functional in many communities. Our own field notes on the subject matter indicate that aswang tales are used by many people as a medium of social control. For example, when a child frets at night or becomes unruly during the day, adult members of the family or sibling caretakers generally use the aswang belief as a means of quieting the child or of disciplining him. When one wishes to protect his fields from unnecessary trespass by others, all he has to do is make it known that an aswang haunts the place and no one will dare enter the premises, especially at night. Deviant behavior is also handled through avoidance, and the aswang label is handy for this purpose. Once the label is set, deviants are either coerced into conformity to what is acceptable behavior or are effectively deprived of their legitimate status in the community.Thus seen, it is understandable that the aswang belief has persisted in our society over such a long period of time.
Author: Maximo D. Ramos Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781544056531 Category : Languages : en Pages : 162
Book Description
The Aswang Complex in Philippine Folklore: With Illustrative Accounts in Vernacular Texts and Translations.This book is a bold attempt to present to the reader and to students of Filipino society and culture one of the dominant Filipino beliefs, the aswang. For some strange reason the belief has never been explored for its usefulness in the field of literature or social studies. Even educators shy away from it, branding the belief as superstitious and therefore hot to be perpetuated. While this view is entertained, however, there is continued use in the schools-including the nursery schools-of Western tales like "Hansel and Gretel," 'Rapunzel," "Snow White," and so forth, dealing with witches, dwarfs, and other people of lower mythology. It is sad to note that while we accept these stories as entertaining to our children, we reject our own folktales about equivalent characters as superstitious and undesirable.It is about time that we changed our perspective, that we accepted our own literary heritage and used it if we are to make education meaningful to our children. Maximo D. Ramos has provided us with one way to achieve this. Of course the present volume is only one of his many works on Philippine folklore.While he presents the materials in this book as folklore, these can also be regarded as ethnographic data in that they deal with one of the dominant aspects of Filipino folk culture. The aswang belief may be viewed as socially functional in many communities. Our own field notes on the subject matter indicate that aswang tales are used by many people as a medium of social control. For example, when a child frets at night or becomes unruly during the day, adult members of the family or sibling caretakers generally use the aswang belief as a means of quieting the child or of disciplining him. When one wishes to protect his fields from unnecessary trespass by others, all he has to do is make it known that an aswang haunts the place and no one will dare enter the premises, especially at night. Deviant behavior is also handled through avoidance, and the aswang label is handy for this purpose. Once the label is set, deviants are either coerced into conformity to what is acceptable behavior or are effectively deprived of their legitimate status in the community.Thus seen, it is understandable that the aswang belief has persisted in our society over such a long period of time.
Author: Maximo D. Ramos Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781976145698 Category : Languages : en Pages : 162
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A collection of 31 Myths, Legends, and Folktales from around the Philippines that showcase the rich and diverse cultural identity throughout the archipelago. The book includes some illustrations, making it a wonderful collection to share with children of Filipino ancestry, or anyone interested in learning about different cultures from around the globe. WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG: How People Were Created Why the Sun Is Brighter than the Moon The Coleto and the Crow The Legend of Mount Kanlaon Why Dogs Bare Their Teeth The Origin of Bananas IN THE PHILIPPINE ELFLAND: The Two Woodcutters and the Elf The Wee Folk The Frog Princess The Bridge of the Angels Two Boys and a Tianak The Elf's Gifts TALES OF LAUGHTER: The Tale of Pakungo-adipen The Man and the Lizard The Man Who Played Dead The Two Foolish Peddlers ANIMALS AND PEOPLE: The Monkeys and the Butterflies Three Friends Seek a Home The Monkey Prince Tale of the Kind-hearted Manobo The Monkey Who Became a Servant ADVENTURE TALES:Death and Datu Omar The Man Who Reached the Sky-World The Buried Treasure The Tale of Magbaloto Tale of the 101 Brothers and Their Sister The Tale of Sog-sogot The Enchanted Snail The Man Who Tried to Cheat Death The Tale of Diwata
Author: Maximo Ramos Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781731252982 Category : Languages : en Pages : 146
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Maximo D. Ramos wrote a number of books detailing the history and culture of the Philippines. Boyhood in Monsoon Country is a collection of little essays about village life as a boy. It is not just the content here, which presents a fascinating range of topics from the food to the bird life to even the mythological creatures that kept him and his friends scared of entering into the woods -- what really speaks to the reader is the lyrical and conversational quality of the writing. Ramos's observations are often hilarious, often poignant, and always stream of consciousness, like a warm grandfather relaying his adventures to his grandchildren who gather around him to take it all in. As Ramos explores his own life and times, his invitation is a simple but profound one: now that he has shared his life, he implores the reader to think about and celebrate their own. Reading Boyhood in Monsoon Country feels like an exchange of lives-- a conversation that lets us into Ramos' world, and encourages us to think of the humanity that unites us all. Contents: Early School Days We Had Gizzards of Iron We Had Food Specials, Too Our Peer Group The Games We Played The Birds We Knew Our Homely Names The Harmful Gods of Our Countryside We Had Just About All We Needed A Note to Agents of Change The Magic of Old Place-Names Holiday in Black Sweet Were the Uses of Necromancy Picnic Holy Week in Monsoon Country Glossary of lloko Terms
Author: Ferdinand Blumentritt Publisher: ISBN: 9781777275808 Category : Mythology, Philippine Languages : en Pages : 0
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Many authors, ancient and modern, native and foreign, have been preoccupied with 'primitive' religion, or even better said, the paganism of the Natives of the Philippines; however, their writings about the religion of the natives, non-Christianized or from the mountains, who until now keep their ancient practices, are always reduced to form a chapter indistinct from the other historical or ethnographic notes of their published works. There exists no work, [major] or minor, dedicated specifically and especially to the study of the religion of all the indigenous races of the Philippine Archipelago. The purpose of this dictionary is to put together the religious groups of the Philippines, and removing those of Christian or Mohammedan origins. This work will provide an opportunity to make comparative studies and give an idea of the wealth of names that are in the mythologies of this country.
Author: Maximo D. Ramos Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781981837762 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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This book tells about 85 creatures of legend from Philippine Folklore. Many people believe that they exist and are afraid of them. The people of the ancient Philippines believed many things about the unseen creatures of the Philippine storyland. If you have met a good storyteller, he may have told you interesting legends about these creatures. And you may have asked a lot of questions about them which he could not answer. If you want to know more about these beings, turn the pages of this book, look at the pictures, and enjoy what is said about them. We call them creatures of midnight because it is said that they show themselves to people about the middle of the night.
Author: Francis Lynch Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781077285835 Category : Languages : en Pages : 46
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THE ASWANG is the most famous creature in Philippine Mythology and Folklore. Most of what we know regarding this amorphous folkloric being were studied and compiled in this 1949 paper by Francis X. Lynch S.J. This study went on to be used as the foundation for other famous work on the aswang, particularly "The Aswang Inquiry" by GCF Books and "The Aswang Complex in Philippine Folklore" by Maximo Ramos. Stories and beliefs about witches and witchcraft can be found in every part of the world. Almost every country can claim a generous share of them, and the Philippines is no exception. Here we possess our own traditional ideas on the subject, handed down through countless generations from our ancestors, and still very much alive today. In this paper the writer intends to set down beliefs of this sort which are current in one part of the Philippines, the Bicol region. It was by chance that the writer first heard of the asuwáng. Subsequent inquiries during two years in the Bicol region revealed the existence of a very interesting if somewhat complex group of beliefs and half-beliefs concerning this witchlike class of human beings which, in Bicol, are designated an mga asuwáng. In the Bicol region - as throughout most of the Philippine lowlands - belief in the asuwáng is a living belief. It is a belief kept alive by the stories told the children by their parents and grandparents; by the traditional explanations of a scratching on the roof by night, a shadow flitting across the near-full moon, or the cry of the bird of ill omen. Asuwáng stories are dismissed as nonsense by a few, doubted as unproved by many, accepted as true by most. Whether the belief is justified or not, it is there. In the following pages will be found an attempt to synthesize the content of that belief as it exists in the principal towns of the provinces of Camarines Sur and Albay. Contents Introduction Meaning of the generic term asuwáng Kinds of asuwáng Becoming an asuwáng Characteristics of asuwáng Restoration of asuwáng to normal human state Measures taken against asuwáng Functions of the asuwáng belief
Author: Maximo Ramos Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781721048250 Category : Languages : en Pages : 196
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IN THE PHILIPPINES, folk healers continue to have extensive practice back home, prescribing cures to appease demonological beings whose domain, they say, the patient has violated. At twilight the healer casts uncooked rice or puts a bowl of saltless boiled chicken where the patient last worked or played before becoming ill. The healer then begs the spirits to accept the offering, forgive the patient's trespass, and heal him. The farmer also offers rice cakes, cigars or cigarettes, wine-and now bottled carbonated drinks have become acceptable as well-before plowing his field and on the last day of harvest. These are the farmer's traditional rent on the land, for the folk believe that the usually invisible dwarfs in the area are the real owners of the land, the farmer who works it being just their tenant though it is titled to him. Our parks should be decorated with figures of these ancient deities rather than with those of European fairies with butterfly wings and sharp-eared dwarfs with red or blue bonnets alien to Philippine folklore. Our gardens should contain figures of the creatures which our villagers tell legends about. Some of the beliefs about these creatures may have been forgotten. But the kinds of behavior they shaped persist, especially where they serve to reinforce existing behavior patterns.
Author: Maximo D. Ramos Publisher: ISBN: 9781729386415 Category : Languages : en Pages : 272
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"Patricia of the Green Hills" is a collection of Filipiniana poems and short stories with reflections of life and folkways while growing up in the Philippines. Dr. Ramos never relaxed his own personal pursuit of the Muse and continued to write short stories, poems, and essays. At the same time, he devoted special attention to serious research on Philippine mythology and folklore. All these were done as he taught and performed administrative duties at the Philippine Normal College and later at the University of the East. We know that his legacy will fire the imagination of Filipino students and inspire them to know more about their own heritage, history, folkways and folklore and to write them down for others to enjoy and appreciate. I. Poems FAUNA November Highway Sign The Cobra Ambush The Spring Prize The Gecko The Calf The Crocodile A Bleeding-Heart Bird VILLAGE AND CITY Barrio Scene Burial Jar d104 Procession Past Midnight in the Barrio Manila Street Scene When I See a Barongbarong Neighborhood View from the Highway Stone Calvary WAR The Beach Two Years After Mount Samat Brown Men Seashore La Jeunesse de L'Annee The Fathers Carol-Not for Christmas Recalling Tale of How an Antique Isle Letter from Mindanao YOUTH To Virgins Taking an Examination The Way My Truelove Bathes Love Song to Patricia The Quarrel Youth FLORA Bamboo Birth A Tree in Bloom A Nameless Plant The Fence The Tree They Felled Dawn in a Kaingin JUNGLE Motortruck in the Jungle The Python Dawn on the Maguindanao River Liguasan Marsh Voice of the Wilderness Hunter LEGENDS Offering The Old Man of the Termite Mound The Banana Stone A Girl Does Not Sweep Her Yard A Bus Passenger There Are Merfolk The Elf Tree A Vanishing Hitchiker The Mangmangldt Gardening SEA AND SKY Atoll The Bather Pearl-Diver Island Vintas Ocean Wings Under the Moon II. Short Stories Summertime in Lomilog Entry November 9 Planting Time and the Crows The Witch's Wood Air Duel The Storm Death of the Old House Big House, Big House Plane Crash in the Ricefield A Nipa House in Suburbia The Man and the Jungle The House at the Bend of the Road Who Sink to Rest Jungle Patricia of the Green Hills The Belle of the Wedding Party In the Gully Death in a Jungle The Bells of Santiago Flame Trees in the Jungle Visit in the Night Uncle Sabas and the Jeepney A Homecoming Christmas Far Away Chin Bo-Hing Ambush The Python Shadows Weekend in Ballay Dark Valley Green River, Brown River
Author: Maximo D. Ramos
Author: Maximo D. Ramos
Author: Maximo D. Ramos
Author: Maximo D. Ramos
Author: Maximo Ramos
Author: Ferdinand Blumentritt
Author: Maximo D. Ramos
Author: Francis Lynch
Author: Maximo Ramos
Author: Maximo D. Ramos
Author: Maximo D. Ramos