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Overview
An elderly couple’s garden produces a single white squash after a long failure of the crop. When they begin cutting it open, a voice asks them not to injure its occupant. Inside is a boy already able to stand and speak. Water falling from his body during a bath turns to gold.
The wonder happens again the next morning, but on the third day the boy becomes sad and flies away. All the gold vanishes with him, leaving the couple alone. The story supplies miraculous birth, speech, flight and disappearing wealth without giving the child a divine name, wings or a transformed animal body.
Origins & earliest records
Ilocano storytelling, Philippines; particular collected witness
Records & interpretation
Complete relevant story, collection preface, regional introduction and attached notes directly read.
Selected bibliography
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Philippine Folk Tales
Ilocano; The White Squash, pp. 185–186; note5
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
Mabel Cook Cole, Philippine Folk Tales (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1916)
Ilocano section. The White Squash, pp. 185–186; note5
Full story, relevant regional introduction and preface read; attached notes checked. Collection mediates oral accounts and earlier print sources without a named individual narrator here. No scientific taxonomy inferred.
References
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- Historical collected narrative and editorial notesCole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), The White Squash, pp. 185–186; note5Research access: 2026-10-05
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