The Pumpkin In The Jar - A Philippian Folk Tale

A king is out hunting one day in the hot sun and has he wonders off and loses his companions he comes a cross a young maiden and notices that she is growing a garden of pumpkins and melons. He becomes and thirsty and asks the young maiden for a drink and as she offers him a drink and then breaks the jar from which he used the king goes back to his palace and months later he sends a knight with a jar to the young maiden and tells her that she must fit a whole pumpkin inside the jar with out breaking or damaging either the jar or the pumpkin.