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Legends
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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 - Exploring legend in history, folklore, literature, fiction, and the arts.
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- Manuscript images and details of the research of Gay Roberts on the mysterious treasure of Rennes-le-Chateau.
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- European legends from the Middle Ages, by Agnes Grozier Herbertson (1908), e-text from Kellscraft Studio.
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- Humorous tales about the men of Gotham, who pretended to be madmen during the reign of King John of England.
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- Searching for the lost treasure of Rennes-le-Chateau.
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- Eleven legends retold by Selma Lagerlöf (1908); e-text at the Baldwin Project.
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- Synopsis of the Legend of the Lady of Lake at Lake Rokonkoma, New York.
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- Collected and retold by Charles Godfrey Leland (1895), e-text from Making of America.
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- Discussion of the source texts, legends, and theories on the Queen of Sheba, by Miri Hunter Haruach.
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- Popular legends retold by Horace E. Scudder (1900); e-text at the Baldwin Project.
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- By Wilhelm Ruland (1906) with illustrations; e-text at Kellscraft Studio.
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- 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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- On the legendary queen of Assyria, said to have built Babylon with its hanging gardens.
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- Five legends of Luxembourg presented by the Luxembourg Tourist Office in London.
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