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Philippine Folk Tales

Note 23 — Wild Tribes of Mindanao

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Another child of the Sun and Moon was a gigantic crab.23 He still lives and is so powerful that every time he opens and closes his eyes there is a flash of lightning. Most of the time the crab lives in a large hole in the bottom of the sea, and when he is there we have high tide; but when he leaves the hole, the waters rush in and there is low tide. His moving about also causes great waves on the surface of the sea.

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