Philippine oral lore

• Pre-Colonial Philippine Literature


  • Religious and Political
  • Adventure
  • Love
  • Hewism
  • Magic
• Purpose of Bugtong


  • To entertain
  • To educate
  • To curse
  • To preserve the culture
• Salawikain


  Sentence with advice
• Salawikain


  • Advice
  • Phrase
  • Idiom
• Chants (Bulong)


  • Witchcraft
  • To heal
• Tanaga


  4 lines, 7 syllables
• Epics


  • Bicol Ibalon
  • Visayan - The maragtas Chronicles of Panay
  • Mindanao-parangen
  • Igorot - Aliguyon
  • Ilokano - Biag ni Lam - Ang 2008
• Myths include the story of Bathala and Ang Pag-aaway ng dagat at langit
• Legends include the Legend of Maria Makiling and the Legend of sampaguita