Filipino Popular Tales is a collection of popular folk tales from the Philippine archipelago, collected and edited with comparative notes by Dean Spruill Fansler, whose notable writings include Exercises in English Form and Diction for Study and Practice, Manual of the Principles of the English Form and Diction, and Metrical Romances in the Philippines .

The author specified in the preface that, the medium of this writings are English which might lack the vernacular and the essence of this publication is not linguistic rather literary. Though stories had been collected from different tribes of Philippines, they are not presented in the order of their origin, rather they are presented in the form of stories cycle.

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