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Overview
While Benito searches the forest for the princess’s lost earring, a mouse of great size appears and offers help. As King of Mice he assembles his subjects and notices one missing. The others find it in a hole among bamboo, too full to walk, and bring it to their ruler despite its request to be left alone. Detecting something hard inside it, the king orders it opened and recovers the earring. The episode gives him unusual size, speech and authority over other mice, without a human transformation or personal name.
Origins & earliest records
Philippines; Tagalog tale as presented by Cole
Records & interpretation
Complete The Story of Benito and its editorial note directly read.
Selected bibliography
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Philippine Folk Tales
Tagalog: The Story of Benito, pp. 189–195 and note 8
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
Philippine Folk Tales
Tagalog; The Story of Benito. Tagalog: The Story of Benito, pp. 189–195 and note 8
Whole Benito story and note8 directly read. Helper deaths, two water origins and undescribed transformed creature retained without added anatomy. Editorial European-origin assertion attributed, not independently verified. Original paraphrase.
References
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- Historical collection / primary recorded narrativeCole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), Tagalog: The Story of Benito, pp. 189–195 and note 8Research access: 2026-10-05
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