Legend Of Mayon Volcano

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The Legend of Mount Mayon has become a part of the life of the people living in Daraga,Albay mainly
because the mountain itself plays a big part in their beliefs, practices, culture and celebrations. The
Magayon Festival was celebrated in commemoration of this legend. Because of the rich oral tradition of
telling stories the there came different versions of the legends where they tackle a tragic love story of a
beautiful damsel and a brave warrior. These legends were believed to be the reason of the mounting of
the beautiful volcano.

Characters:

Daragang Magayon - the beautiful lady from the Kabikulan and the love interest of Panganoron and
Paratuga. Her grave was believed to be in the place where Mount Mayon has risen.

Panganoron - the love interest of Daragang Magayon, a tagalog warrior, which means their love affair is
prohibited.

Paratuga - a rich but celfish native in Kabikolan who aims to win Daragang Magayon's heart.

Tiong Makusog - the chief of the village and the loving father of Daragang Makusog who was abducted
by Paratuga so that the damsel will be forced to marry him.

Story:

The legend tells the story of the most beautiful maiden named Daragang Magayon in Bikolandia or
Kabikolan, long before the separation of thePhilippines to mainland Asia. During those times, it is
prohibited for a maiden to marry a man living outside the Kabikulan. Though Daragang Magayon had a
native and rich but selfish suitor named Paratuga, she fell in love with a stranger, a Tagalog, named
Panganoron.

One night, she told her father Tiong Makusog about her love affair with the stranger and though it is
prohibited and it hurts the father's heart to know that his only daughter is in love with a stranger he still
told her that he will find the best way to fulfill the wish of his daughter. Unfortunately, Paratuga
kidnapped Tiong Makusog and demanded Daragang Makusog to marry him in exchange of the life of his
father. When Daragang Makusog learned about this, she hurriedly went to the house of Paratuga and
agreed to marry him.

Then the date of the marriage is announced. When the news finally reached Panganoron he planned to
save the girl he loves and decide to throw a war against Paratuga. The war happened on the day of the
wedding and there Daragang Magayon was killed with a stray arrow and when Panganoron is holding
the weak body of the beloved, he was attacked from behind. Both of them were killed.

Tiong Makusog buried his daughter along with all her belongings including the bride price given
 by Paratuga. The inhabitants of the land were surprised to the grave of Daragang Magayon into a hill.
Also at the top of that hill were clouds that busrt out rain. And at night the people experience
thundering noises of rolling stones and earthquakes. The hill kept growing and growing. Today, it is now
known as The Mayon Volcano, deriving its name from "Magayon" and the name of the town Daraga is
derived from Daragang.

LEGEND OF MARIA MAKILING

Once upon a time, a diwata lived in a mountain of Laguna. She was called Maria Makiling. She has light
olive skin, long shining black hair and twinkling eyes. She was breathtakingly beautiful. Maria was always
about helping other people. One time, the children of a farmer got sick. When he went to Maria to seek
help, he was given a bilao full of ginger. The farmer sadly went home carrying the bilao of ginger. When
he reached his hut, he was greatly surprised: the ginger had turned to gold! Because of Maria's kindness,
the townsfolk had grown to love her.

Maria was a great beauty. She was sought for and wooed by many suitors. Three of them were very
much determined to have her. One is Captain Lara, a Spanish soldier who always brought her gifts from
Europe. The other is Joselito, a Spanish mestizo who was studying in Manila . Every time Joselito visits
Maria, he had many stories to tell her about foreign countries and the things that he had read in books.
He dreamed of going to Spain. He didn't like to live in the Philippines. Of the three, it was Juan who is
the most industrious. He is a common farmer. But he is so hard working, and his fruits and vegetable
grew fat and juicy. He also had many pet animals and birds. But if truth be told, it was Juan who Maria
secretly admired. As time passed, her suitors became more and more impatient and demanded that
Maria tell them who she loves. So the diwata was forced to promise: "By the night of the full moon, I will
tell you my answer."

When the night of the full moon arrived, all of her suitors climbed up the mountain to know her
decision. All was startled when Maria told them that it was Juan whom she loved. The suitors went away
feeling dejected. On the other hand, Joselito and Captain Lara were very much angry with Juan. They
thought of a plan against him. One day, all was surprised when a huge fire devoured the cuartel of the
Spanish. Because of the fire, Captain Lara ordered many Filipinos to be captured. Secretly, Joselito
helped him. Juan was among those who they imprisoned and tortured.

Many prisoners did not last long from the tortures the Spanish had inflicted upon them. One night,
Captain Lara and Joselito secretly spoke with the prisoners. The next day, Juan was blamed for the
burning of the Spanish cuartel. "I did not do it!" cried Juan. But the prisoners pointed at him because
Captain Lara and Joselito frightened them.
The soldiers brought Juan to the plaza. In front of hundreds of people, Juan was shot as the enemy of
the Spaniards. He was killed even though he didn't commit any wrongdoing. But before he died, he
managed to shout out loud Maria's name. It was heard by the diwata so she quickly went down her
mountain.

But Juan was already dead when Maria arrived. Tears falling down her face, she embraced tightly his
lifeless body. Afterwards, she faced the crowd. "Why did you not take care of him?" she shouted.
Meanwhile, Captain Lara and Joselito fled to Manila because they were afraid of Maria. When she
learned of this, she cursed the two. She also cursed those men who cannot accept failure in love. Soon,
the curse took effect. Joselito suddenly became ill. There was no cure for his illness.

Captain Lara, on the other hand, was called back to Laguna when the Filipinos revolted against the
abuse that the Spaniards had inflicted upon them. The revolution quickly spread to many parts of the
Philippines. The revolutionary Filipinos killed Captain Lara. From then on, Maria never let herself be
seen by the people. Every time somebody got lost on the mountain, they remember the curse of the
diwata.

They remember the great love of Maria Makiling.

The Legend Of Pineapple

By Shreya Sharma

This is The Legend Of Pineapple Story for kids. Once upon a time, there was a woman who lived with her
daughter, Pina in a tiny hut in a village. They were very poor and the mother worked day and night to
make both ends meet. No matter how hard she worked, she could never get any help from her
daughter.

Pina was a lazy, spoilt kid who liked to play in the backyard all day. Whenever he mother asked for help,
she would always find an excuse by saying she couldn’t find the object needed to complete the task. If
her mother asked her to sweep the house, she would say that she could not find the broom, even if it
was right in front of her. Her mother always ended up doing all the work by herself. Also, read The
Legend Of The Black Sea.
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One day, her mother became very ill. She called out to Pina and said, “Pina, Come here, I am very sick.
Can you cook some porridge for me? I’m so weak that I cannot get up!” Pina ignored her mother and
continued to playing the backyard. “Daughter, come over here this very instant,” Pina’s mother
mustered all her strength just to call her. Pina grudgingly stopped playing and went inside the house.

She poked her head into her mother’s room. “What do you want, Mama? You really expect me to cook
for you? That’s too hard!” Pina protested pouting and stomped her feet. Her mother told her the recipe
to cook porridge and she told her that whatever she would need was there in the kitchen. Pina
reluctantly left and went to the kitchen. Her mother could hear the banging of the drawers and the
cabinets.

After sometime, her mother heard her opening the back door and sneaking out into the backyard. Her
mother waited and waited. Finally, she called out to Pina again. “Pina, did you cook like I told you to?”
“No!” was the defined response. “Why not?” asked her mother very tiredly. “Because I couldn’t find the
laddle,” said Pina. “Oh, you lazy child, you probably didn’t even look for it. What am I going to do with
you, Pina? I’m so sick but I cannot even count on you,” cried her poor mother. You may also like to read,
The Legend Of The Chinese Dragon.

The mother wept bitterly. In her rage, she shouted, “I wish you would grow a thousand eyes all over
your head. Then, you can find what you’re looking for. Maybe then, Pina, you won’t have so many such
excuses!” As soon as she said this, there was complete silence. Her mother thought, “She’s trying to be
quiet so I can forget about asking her again,” she sighed.

She was hoping that Pina would come back. Realizing the wait was futile, she slowly got up to do the
cooking by herself. When she looked out into the backyard, Pina was nowhere to be found. She sighed
again and said, “That lazy girl must have gone to her friend’s house. She didn’t want to do any errands
for me!” Exhausted, she went back to her room for a much needed rest. Weaker she was, she tried to do
everything she could.

Hours passed by and then days. Still there was no sign of her wayward daughter. With a heavy heart, she
thought Pina had ran away. When she recovered from her illness, the first thing she did was look for
Pina. No one had seen or heard from her. It was as if she was disappeared into thin air. Also, read The
Legend Of The Dream Catcher.

Months passed and still, there was no sign of her. The mother felt very bad for her angry outburst. She
feared that she might never ever see her daughter again.
One day, while sweeping the backyard, where Pina used to play, she noticed a very strange plant
growing at the very spot where she last saw Pina. By this time, the leaves of the plant had fully opened.
Inside, she saw this very strange yellow fruit. It resembled a child’s head with a thousand eyes.

She suddenly remembered the spiteful words she had said that day. With horror, she realized in the
same way, her mother’s love have spoiled her daughter. Her anger unwittingly cursed her. Somehow,
her daughter had turned into this plant.

To honor the memory of her beloved daughter, she named the fruit “Pina”. She took such loving care of
it like it was her own daughter. The fruit flourished so well that it bore more and more fruits. It became
very popular among the villagers and the entire country. Its name later evolved to “Pimia” or
“Pineapple” in English. You may also like to read, The Giant Turnip.

That’s how the Pineapple came to be according to the folklore. It was named after a very spoilt child
who was cursed with a thousand eyes.

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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Story

By Shreya Sharma

This is Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves story. In Persia, there lived two brothers. They were Kassim and Ali
Baba. One day, after their father died, Kassim, the older brother said, “It’s not your home anymore. Go
away and don’t come back.” Ali Baba left his house. He went up to the mountain and saw forty thieves.
In front of the big rock, they said, “OPEN SESAME!” With the magic words, the big rock opened, and all
the forty thieves went inside. “What a sight,” thought Ali Baba.

After all the thieves left, Ali Baba came closer and he said, “OPEN SESAME!” The door on the rock
opened and Ali Baba went in. The cave was full of treasures. “Amazing!” shouted Ali Baba. He took some
of the treasures home. He became rich.

ali baba and the forty thieves story

Ali baba and the forty thieves story

Soon, Ali Baba’s brother Kassim heard about it. He was very jealous. Kassim visited Ali Baba and said,
“Where did you get all these things?” Kassim kept asking and asking. Finally, Ali Baba told Kassim about
the secret place. Kassim could not wait. He ran to the cave and he shouted, “OPEN SESAME!” Soon, the
door opened. He was very excited and he filled up his sack with all the treasures.

However, when he was ready to go out, he found the door was closed. He cried and tried to think of the
secret words. He said, “OPEN DONKEY! OPEN MONKEY!” He tried and tried. But, it didn’t work, not at
all. Soon, the thieves came back, and Kassim was killed by the angry thieves.

Ali Baba heard about his brother. He went to the cave, took his brother, and he buried him in a nice
place. The thieves were angrier than before. They said, “Someone was here, and he took the man. Let’s
go to the town and find him.” Soon, they knew it was Ali Baba.

Finally, one of the thieves saw Ali Baba. He put a mark on Ali Baba’s door. However, Ali Baba’s maid saw
it. She put the same mark on all the doors in town.

The next day, the thieves came to get Ali Baba. However, all the doors had the same marks, and they
could not find Ali Baba’s house. In the end, the thieves found Ali Baba’s house and they went in. They
hid in the big jars. But again, the maid saw them hiding. She poured boiling oil into the jars. The thieves
in the jars screamed, and then they all died.

One last thief was the chief. He went to Ali Baba’s house as a guest. But, Ali Baba’s maid knew who he
was. “Be my guest! Relax and enjoy the show!” said the maid. She brought two swords, and she started
to dance. As she moved, she came closer to the thief. Then, she stabbed him quickly. Later, Ali Baba
learned what happened. He was surprised by her help and wisdom. “Thank you for saving my life,” he
said. Ali Baba married his maid and they lived happily ever after.

Paul Bunyan

legendary character

BY The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica | Last Updated: Sep 12, 2021 | View Edit History

Paul Bunyan, giant lumberjack, mythical hero of the lumber camps in the United States, a symbol of
bigness, strength, and vitality. The tales and anecdotes that form the Paul Bunyan legend are typical of
the tradition of frontier tall tales. Paul and his companions, Babe the Blue Ox and Johnny Inkslinger, are
undismayed by rains that last for months, giant mosquitoes, or adverse geography. The tales describe
how Paul, who fashions lakes and rivers at will, created Puget Sound, the Grand Canyon, and the Black
Hills. They celebrate the lumbermen’s prodigious appetites. Paul’s camp stove covers an acre, and his
hotcake griddle is so large that it is greased by men using sides of bacon for skates.

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox guard the entrance to a roadside attraction known as the Trees of
Mystery, near Klamath, Calif.

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox guard the entrance to a roadside attraction known as the Trees of
Mystery, near Klamath, Calif.

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A few anecdotes of Paul Bunyan recorded from oral folklore suggest that he was known to lumbermen
in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and the Northwest before the first Bunyan stories were published by James
MacGillivray in “The Round River Drive” (Detroit News-Tribune, July 24, 1910). Within 15 years, through
popularization by professional writers, Bunyan was transformed from an occupational folk figure into a
national legend. Paul was first introduced to a general audience by W.B. Laughead, a Minnesota
advertising man, in a series of pamphlets (1914–44) used to publicize the products of the Red River
Lumber Company. These influenced Esther Shephard, who wrote of the mythic hero in Paul Bunyan
(1924). James Stevens, also a lumber publicist, mixed tradition and invention in his version of the story,
Paul Bunyan (1925). These books restyled Paul’s image for a wide popular audience; their humour
centred on Paul’s giganticness rather than on knowledge of lumbering techniques. The Bunyan legend
was further popularized by numerous children’s books and by civic festivals held to attract tourists to
“Bunyan-land.”

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Paul Bunyan is the subject of poems by the American poets Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and Richard
Wilbur and of an operetta by the Anglo-American poet W.H. Auden and the English composer Benjamin
Britten.

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The Fountain Of Youth Story

By Shreya Sharma

The Fountain Of Youth Story

This is the Fountain Of Youth Story for children. Long, long ago, there lived an old man and his wife in
the mountains. The old man was a woodcutter and the old woman worked around the house. Both of
them had spent many happy years together. Unfortunately, they did not have any children. As they
were getting old, they were afraid that death would separate them. Also, read The Origin Of Star Apple.

One day, the old man went to the forest to collect some woods. But he was lost in the woods. After
searching the way for many hours, he became tired and thirsty. Soon, he found a spring in the woods
and he immediately drank the water from the spring. When he saw his own reflection, he was shocked.
To his astonishment, he was now young again! He was looking like a twenty-year-old boy. He realized
that he had found the spring of youth!
Immediately, he ran to tell what had happened to him. At once, his wife could not recognize him. “Look,
I am young again!” said the old man. His wife was very surprised as she saw him. “Where is the spring?”
she asked, “I want to drink from it!” The man told her the way to the spring. Since the old lady wanted
to become young again, she left the place in a hurry.

A few hours later, his wife was not home. “Where is she? I must find her,” he thought. When he reached
the spring searching for his wife, he found a baby next to the spring. “Oh no, This is my wife!” he
thought. The woodcutter realized that his wife had drunk too much of the magic water. He took the
baby back to his house and brought her up with love. The woodcutter and the baby live happy.

The River and the Mountain

One day, the river thought to herself, 'Do I have to keep flowing all my life? Can't I stop and rest for a
little while ?'' She needed advice, so she called out to the mountain and shared her thoughts with him.
The mountain just laughed and said: ''Hey, look at me, I have been standing in the same place for ages!''
The river replied, ''You are firm and fixed in one place, how could you ever get tired ? Look at me, I have
to be on the move all the time. I don't get to rest for even a single minute!''

The mountain smiled. ''That is how you see it, but I get tired of standing here,'' he replied. ''Every day I
see the same trees and the same patch of sky, sometimes I wish: if only I could run around like the river,
I would visit new forests and villages. I would water their fields, give life, and be so deeply loved by all.
''The river interrupted, ''That's strange! Your life is so comfortable and peaceful, yet you feel this way.''

''You don't get it, my sister. You are worshiped by everyone.'' the mountain replied lovingly. ''You flow
for the sake of others. And that's not all! After giving away so much, you offer whatever remains, to the
see.'' On hearing this, the river bowed down to the mountain and said with great enthusiasm, ''You are
absolutely right, my brother. The true purpose of my life is to give life to others. Thank you for your kind
wisdome!'' She said.

Then, while the mountain smiled at her newfound positive energy, she gushed away with a loud gurgle,
feeling very happy.

The real-life origins of the legendary Kraken

Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, University of Tübingen

December 30, 2015 10.42am GMT

The Kraken is perhaps the largest monster ever imagined by mankind. In Nordic folklore, it was said to
haunt the seas from Norway through Iceland and all the way to Greenland. The Kraken had a knack for
harassing ships and many pseudoscientific reports (including official naval ones) said it would attack
vessels with its strong arms. If this strategy failed, the beast would start swimming in circles around the
ship, creating a fierce maelstrom to drag the vessel down.
Of course, to be worth its salt, a monster needs to have a taste for human flesh. Legends say that the
Kraken could devour a ship’s entire crew at once. But despite its fearsome reputation, the monster
could also bring benefits: it swam accompanied by huge schools of fish that cascaded down its back
when it emerged from the water. Brave fishermen could thus risk going near the beast to secure a
bounteous catch.

The history of the Kraken goes back to an account written in 1180 by King Sverre of Norway. As with
many legends, the Kraken started with something real, based on sightings of a real animal, the giant
squid. For the ancient navigators, the sea was treacherous and dangerous, hiding a horde of monsters in
its inconceivable depths. Any encounter with an unknown animal could gain a mythological edge from
sailors’ stories. After all, the tale grows in the telling.

The strength of the myth became so strong that the Kraken could still be found in Europe’s first modern
scientific surveys of the natural world in the 18th century. Not even Carl Linnaeus – father of modern
biological classification – could avoid it and he included the Kraken among the cephalopod mollusks in
the first edition of his groundbreaking Systema Naturae (1735).

But when, in 1853, a giant cephalopod was found stranded on a Danish beach, Norwegian naturalist
Japetus Steenstrup recovered the animal’s beak and used it to scientifically describe the giant squid,
Architeuthis dux. And so what had become legend officially entered the annals of science, returning our
image of the Kraken to the animal that originated the myths.

After 150 years of research into the giant squid that inhabits all the world’s oceans, there is still much
debate as to whether they represent a single species or as many as 20. The largest Architeuthis recorded
reaches 18 metres in length, including the very long pair of tentacles, but the vast majority of specimens
are much smaller. The giant squid’s eyes are the largest in the animal kingdom and are crucial in the
dark depths it inhabits (up to 1,100 metres deep, perhaps reaching 2,000 metres).

Like some other squid species, Architeuthis has pockets in its muscles containing an ammonium solution
that is less dense than sea water. This allows the animal to float underwater, meaning that it can keep
itself steady without actively swimming. The presence of unpalatable ammonium in their muscles is also
probably the reason why giant squid have not yet been fished to near extinction.

Atlantis

legendary island

Alternate titles: Atalantis, Atlantica

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Atlantis, also spelled Atalantis or Atlantica, a legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, lying west of the
Strait of Gibraltar. The principal sources for the legend are two of Plato’s dialogues, Timaeus and Critias.
In the former, Plato describes how Egyptian priests, in conversation with the Athenian lawgiver Solon,
described Atlantis as an island larger than Asia Minor and Libya combined, and situated just beyond the
Pillars of Hercules (the Strait of Gibraltar). About 9,000 years before the birth of Solon, the priests said,
Atlantis was a rich island whose powerful princes conquered many of the lands of the Mediterranean
until they were finally defeated by the Athenians and the latter’s allies. The Atlantians eventually
became wicked and impious, and their island was swallowed up by the sea as a result of earthquakes. In
the Critias, Plato supplied a history of the ideal commonwealth of the Atlantians.

Atlantis

Atlantis

The island of Atlantis, as depicted in an engraving in Athanasius Kircher's Mundus Subterraneus (1664;
“Subterranean World”). This map, based on Egyptian maps, is oriented with the south at the top (note
the compass arrow pointing down), so America and the Atlantic Ocean lie to the right of Africa and
Spain. The text in the legend on the upper right, translated, states, “The site of Atlantis, now beneath
the sea, according to the beliefs of the Egyptians and the description of Plato.”

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Atlantis is probably a mere legend, but medieval European writers who received the tale from Arab
geographers believed it to be true, and later writers tried to identify it with an actual country. After the
Renaissance, for example, attempts were made to identify Atlantis with America, Scandinavia, and the
Canary Islands. The story of Atlantis, if Plato did not invent it, may in fact reflect ancient Egyptian
records of a volcanic eruption on the island of Thera about 1500 BCE. This eruption, one of the most
stupendous of historical times, was accompanied by a series of earthquakes and tsunamis that shattered
civilization on Crete, thereby perhaps giving rise to the legend of Atlantis.