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Overview
After her husband Bantugan’s warship is destroyed, his wife gathers the remaining warriors and sails to avenge him. Her ship also sinks, and the mountain of Timaco rises at the spot. Cole’s narrator says that she still lives inside the mountain, that white monkeys on the wooded island are her servants, and that the songs of her waiting-girls can be heard on a quiet day. The account does not name her, turn her into a monkey or identify the monkeys as transformed human attendants. Her continuing mountain residence is the tale’s ending, not a verified claim about present-day sounds or inhabitants.
Origins & earliest records
Philippines; Mindanao narrative in Cole’s Moro section
Records & interpretation
Complete The Story of Bantugan, its three notes and the Moro-section introduction directly read.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
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Philippine Folk Tales
Moro section, The Story of Bantugan, pp. 163–171 and notes 7–9
Family, evolution & connections
Bantugan’s wife and her paternal family — Cole
Three explicitly connected generations in the Sultan’s household, this telling only.
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- Unnamed old father of the Sultan
- Unnamed Sultan
The Princess is the Sultan’s daughter; the Sultan summons his own father to identify the approaching flags. All three personal names are unspecified. The Princess’s siblings are mentioned without names; their number is not fixed. Marriage to Bantugan is documented separately, without inventing their children.
Unnamed Sultan, father of Bantugan’s wife
The Princess is repeatedly identified as the Sultan’s daughter during the proposal and marriage episode.
Unnamed old father of the Sultan
The Sultan calls for his own elderly father, who recognizes Bantugan’s family flags. He is therefore the Princess’s paternal grandfather; no name is given.
Primary records and illustrations
Philippine Folk Tales
Moro section; The Story of Bantugan. Moro section, The Story of Bantugan, pp. 163–171 and notes 7–9
Complete story, notes7–9 and sectional introduction with its note read. Named father-son relation, storm-object and distinct island endings preserved; no extra anatomical or transformation claims. Original paraphrase; no oral teller identified.
References
Sources supporting this profile. Linked pages have their own scope and editorial standards.
- Historical collection / primary recorded narrativeCole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), Moro section, The Story of Bantugan, pp. 163–171 and notes 7–9Research access: 2026-10-05
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