The students who wrote down Tagalog riddles
tellers of riddles · Philippines · early 20th century
Filipino students of the 1900s. They wrote down in their own language the riddles they had grown up hearing and gave them to the American anthropologist Frederick Starr, who published the collection in 1909. Who first made the riddles is not known.
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1909 · A riddle; the answer is the stars. Schoolboys wrote these down in their own language, and Starr collected and published them in 1909.
I sowed grains of maize; when morning came they had all been swept away.
Ako ay naghasik nang mais, pagka umaga ay palis.
Frederick Starr, A Little Book of Filipino Riddles (1909), no. 156
1909 · A riddle; the answer is a lamp.
One grain of rice fills the whole house.
Isang butel na palay punong puno ang bahay.
Frederick Starr, A Little Book of Filipino Riddles (1909), no. 85
1909 · A riddle; the answer is rain.
Adam's hair cannot be counted.
Buhoc ni Adan, hindi mabilang.
Frederick Starr, A Little Book of Filipino Riddles (1909), no. 340
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