Istorya ti Naggapuan: Textual analyses of ilokano legends

This study focused on the analyses of the Ilokano Folk Literature particularly legends in Northwestern Cagayan and Ilocos Norte. Specifically, it resolved the problems: what thought, emotion, behavior, and folkways are reflected in each legend; and what is the implication of Ilokano Folk Literature collection to educational development? The study used the qualitative research design because the researcher textually analyzed the legends. The data which were elicited from the internet were analyzed through the use of textual analyses such as thought or belief, emotion, behavior, and folkways. Ilokano folk narratives particularly legends unveiled bravery, romance, and how a gallant heir fighting for a lady's love. Others disclose the origin of a place like a hill, rock formation, municipality and a lake. The most articulated thoughts are regret, being greedy, clipping of names, protecting one's territory, belief in God and supernatural beings and simplicity of life. Also, arrogance, stinginess, determination, passionateness, bravery, unitedness, diligence, boastfulness, and rivalry are the behaviors of the characters revealed. Feelings of regret, pain, anger, love, happiness, admiration, bitterness, fear, hatred, and hope are the emotions encapsulated. Fishing, stinginess, hunting, use of arrows, patriotism, heroism, rivalry, belief in God and supernatural existences and associating dreams into real-life are the prevailing folkways specified. Additionally, theseanalyses of folk literature can contribute to the preservation, conservation and propagation of the inventiveness and ingenuity of the Ilokanos in the educational arena by enriching the school's curricula through the inclusion of these collected folklores and by providing the learners with valuable reading materials, offering them better perception, and respecting and appreciating more their and of other's folk literature. Finally, without timely intervention, traditional cultural practices may disappear and be forgotten. Therefore, through this humble undertaking, the Ilokano studentswill be left with a lasting legacy and chronicles of folk masterpieces. This study is hoped to benefit them by giving them something to look back on, so they may realize that it is truly imperative to conserve, preserve and analyze the Ilokano Folk Literatures before they shall be long forgotten because of modernization and cultural intermarriages.