Legends Tales Literature

Legends are folktales about extraordinary events, often involving meetings with the supernatural, set in a specific time and place, and featuring specific people. Legends may or may not have a historical or factual basis, but they are told as true and believed or believable. There are legends told about places (local legends), saints (religious legends), and heroes (heroic legends). For more modern legends, see Society/Folklore/Literature/Urban_Legends/.

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• Legends of the Rhine - By Wilhelm Ruland (1906) with illustrations; e-text at Kellscraft Studio.
  
• Legends of Florence - Collected and retold by Charles Godfrey Leland (1895), e-text from Making of America.
  
• The Wise Men of Gotham - Humorous tales about the men of Gotham, who pretended to be madmen during the reign of King John of England.
  
• Christ Legends - Eleven legends retold by Selma Lagerlöf (1908); e-text at the Baldwin Project.
  
• Luxembourg Legends - Five legends of Luxembourg presented by the Luxembourg Tourist Office in London.
  
• Heroic Legends - European legends from the Middle Ages, by Agnes Grozier Herbertson (1908), e-text from Kellscraft Studio.
  
• Gunpowder Gertie - Pirate Queen of the Kootenays - Kootenay mountain legend of piracy on British Columbia's waterways.
  
• Legend of the Lady of the Lake - Synopsis of the Legend of the Lady of Lake at Lake Rokonkoma, New York.
  
• The Book of Legends - Popular legends retold by Horace E. Scudder (1900); e-text at the Baldwin Project.
  
• Shine: The Concept of the World in Macedonian Folk Legends - Essay by Ermis Lafazanovski discussing pre-Christian and Christian ideas on the concept of the world as present in Macedonian legends.
  
  

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