the man's daughter (Tale 74)

Role: daughter · First appears: Tale 74

In Tale 74, the man’s daughter was little when he went away and grown up and beautiful when he returned. She told her mother, the man's wife, that she would become a coconut tree beside their house; in the morning, her parents found her changed into a fine tree there.

Relationship record

Life events

• The man's daughter had changed into a coconut tree beside the house.(Tale 74)
  • With: the man (Tale 74) the man's wife (Tale 74)
  • “In the morning the man and his wife missed the girl, and when they looked out doors, there stood a fine coconut tree close to the house; so they knew that she had changed to the tree.”

Tale 74

• parent: the man (Tale 74) “the man's daughter, who was little when he went away, was grown up and beautiful when he returned.”
• parent: the man's wife (Tale 74) “so she went home and said to her mother, ‘It is better now that I become a coconut tree, to stand close by our house.’”

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Extracted from the original text of Traditions of the Tinguian. Made with Rho MD.