Legends

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Legends
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Definition Legend

• The term legend can be defined as a story passed
  from person to person usually orally by a
  storyteller and is about a heroic person or a
  fantastic place the story often has some basis
  in truth about some historical event.

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Legend Examples

• King Arthur with his Knights of the Roundtable
  has long been a source of legend, such as the
  story about the Quest for the Holy Grail (the cup
  from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper).

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Legend Examples

• El Dorado is a supposed place in South America
  where there is gold everywhere and the people
  give it away.

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Legend Examples

• The Fountain of Youth is a water which gives
  permanent youth to those who drink of it. Juan
  Ponce de Leon was reportedly searching for it in
  Florida in 1513.

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Legend Examples

• Robin Hood in England, long a source of legend
  along with his Merry Men, was a bandit/hero
  about whom many good stories tell.

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Legend Examples

• The lost island city of Atlantis is another
  popular legend which may have existed but was
  destroyed by an earthquake, although some say it
  sank beneath the sea.

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Legend Examples

• Other popular legends include stories of the
  Bermuda Triangle, the Loch Ness monster, Big
  Foot, and assorted vampires and werewolves.
• Today legends are still being created and called
  Urban Legends. There are many WWW sites devoted
  to them.

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Legends

• Every culture has its own legends.
• Legends are sometimes based on truth or upon
  historical events or places.
• Legends can entertain people a lot.
• Legends are still being created.
• Legends will be with us as long as there are
  people to enjoy them.