Damiana Ligon Eugenio (September 27, 1921 – October 10, 2014) was a Filipino female author and professor who was known as the Mother of Philippine Folklore, a title she received in 1986. Apart from teaching at the University of the Philippines, she has several publications in the field of Philippine folklore, among them a series of seven books which she compiled and edited.
Eugenio attended Nueva Ecija High School in Cabanatuan. She later graduated cum laude from the University of the Philippines with a BSE degree. She obtained her master's degree in English Literature and folklore. She was a professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature for the College of Arts in Diliman.
Eugenio taught at the University of the Philippines.
Her works were described as thorough and professional in presentation and as being valuable resources for scholars studying the Philippines and comparative folklore. Written in the English language, her Philippine Folk Literature: The Myths (1993) served as a compendium that promotes "national and international access to Filipino folklore." Its contents were gathered from written sources rather than collected oral variants. The collection was intended to foster interest in the subject matter. In this work, Eugenio also presented the collected narratives in a proper scholarly context that also justified the inclusion of the legends of saints, as opposed to being a pure collection of myths. This particular volume was also described as a recommended work for "any individual interested in issues of Filipino worldviews and value systems, to any scholar investigating myths across cultures, and to anyone who enjoys the insights that a culture's narratives provide."
Eugenio died on October 10, 2014. She had a bad fall in December 2013 and became bed ridden since.