"Leyte" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... material from a somewhat new angle, and are very useful for reference. It seems hardly necessary to attempt to add here to those two exhaustive monographs. Attention may be called to the fact, however, that our story of "Abadeja," which comes from Leyte, presents a number of interesting items not found in the other Filipino variants: e.g., (1) the task of washing a black handkerchief white, and vice-versa; (2) the magic tree growing up from the ...
— Filipino Popular Tales • Dean S. Fansler |
