Isabelo de los Reyes
1889 · Ilocos, Philippines · His answer to complaints that he had brought to light even the less creditable customs of the Ilocanos. Just before, he writes that in his impartiality he has sacrificed to science the affection of the Ilocanos.
Let each serve his people according to his own way of thinking; I, with Ilocano folklore, believe I am helping to throw light on the past of mine.
Cada uno sirva á su pueblo segun su manera de pensar, y yo con el Folk-Lore ilocano creo contribuir á esclarecer el pasado del mío.
Isabelo de los Reyes, El Folk-lore Filipino, vol. 1 (1889) · Introduction
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Isabelo de los Reyes
1889 · Ilocos, Philippines · The opening of a paper requested by Spanish folklorists. Having said this, he goes on to weigh, one by one, the views of European scholars on whether folklore is a science.
Brother of the forest-dwelling Aetas, Igorots and Tinguians, and born in this remote Spanish colony where civilization still shines with a very faint light, I sincerely confess that I know very little, or rather nothing, of the new occupation of human thought called Folk-Lore.
Hermano de los selváticos aetas, igorrotes y tinguianes y nacido en esta apartada colonia española, donde la civilización brilla aún con luz muy ténue, confieso sinceramente que muy poco, ó mas bien dicho, nada sé yo de la nueva ocupación del pensamiento humano llamado Folk-Lore.
Isabelo de los Reyes, El Folk-lore Filipino, vol. 1 (1889) · "Terminología del Folk-Lore", first sentence
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When you go into a wood, do not forget your wood-knife.A proverb from John Bowring, The Kingdom and People of Siam (1857), as reprinted in George B. Bacon, Siam, the Land of the White Elephant · in place of the original: the English translation by John Bowring (1857)
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