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Mariang Makiling

A cat and dog live together but constantly fight over everything. When the cat's mouse falls in the pond and the dog's ball gets stuck in a tree, they have to work together to solve their problems. The simple story shows how kindness can turn enemies into friends. Mariang Makiling is a mysterious fairy who guards Mount Makiling and has lived as long as the mountain. She appears after storms to repair nature and also helps humans, often gifting them gold. She tests people's kindness by begging as an old woman. As the forest deteriorated, fewer people honored her generosity and she stopped appearing. The legend of the fairy who protects the forest lives on.

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Mariang Makiling

A cat and dog live together but constantly fight over everything. When the cat's mouse falls in the pond and the dog's ball gets stuck in a tree, they have to work together to solve their problems. The simple story shows how kindness can turn enemies into friends. Mariang Makiling is a mysterious fairy who guards Mount Makiling and has lived as long as the mountain. She appears after storms to repair nature and also helps humans, often gifting them gold. She tests people's kindness by begging as an old woman. As the forest deteriorated, fewer people honored her generosity and she stopped appearing. The legend of the fairy who protects the forest lives on.

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MARIA MAKILING

A Cat and a Dog


A cat and a dog live in the same house,
but they are not friends. They fight all
the time, about everything. Then
disaster strikes. Dog's beloved ball
bounces up into a tree and is stuck. Cat's
precious stuffed mouse falls into the
pond. Dog can't climb. Cat can't swim.
What are they to do? Claire Masurel's
simple text and Bob Kolar's bright, bold
illustrations combine in this charming
picture book for the very young, a
humorous look at the age-old battle of
cats and dogs that demonstrates how a
simple act of kindness can turn an
enemy into a friend.
MARIANG MAKILING
Mariang Makiling is said to be the mysterious fairy guarding Mount Makiling. No one
knows how old she is. It is believed she is as old as the mountain itself. The very few
people who have seen her wandering around the thick forest of Makiling say she is tall
and graceful, with brown skin, deep black eyes, and hair almost touching the ground.
Deer hunters have seen her standing on the edge of a cliff on moonlit nights, with her
long hair floating in the air and her singing echoing throughout the deep valleys.

Mariang Makiling likes to appear after a storm. She strolls around the woods to straighten
broken trunks, replace nests on the branches of trees, mend the wings of butterflies, and
clear the streams of fallen twigs and logs. As she walks around, all signs of the storm
disappear; roses and orchids bloom, birds chirp with glee, and deer run around once
again.

Mariang Makiling is also known to have a good heart. She would appear as a young girl
to help old women gather firewood. She would then slip gold nuggets, coins, and jewels
into their bundles of wood. She would also invite tired hunters to her home where she will
serve them a warm meal and cold drinks. She often gives them a small parting gift of
ginger, which hunters discover to have turned into gold when they arrive home.

Many of those who were granted Mariang Makiling’s generosity knows well how to repay
her kindness. They thus leave on the grounds of Mount Makiling a hen that is less than
one year old and with feathers as white as milk. White hens are her favourite treats.

Mariang Makiling has often appeared as an old woman begging for food from hunters.
She does this to test their kindness to those in need. People who refuse to help her are
chased away from the forest with the sound of howling monsters hiding in the shadows of
the woods.

As time went by people saw less of Mariang Makiling. She no longer appears to people to
bring them gifts of gold and jewels. Hunters have no one to turn to when they are hungry
and thirsty.

Many blame Mariang Makiling’s disappearance from the forest on the people who do not
return her generosity. Others say that the cutting of trees and excessive hunting of wild
animals have greatly disappointed Mariang Makiling that she refuses to come out
anymore. But the tale of the mysterious fairy of Mount Makiling lives on.
MARIA MAKILING

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