What are legends?
“An unverified story handed down from earlier times, especially one popularly believed to be historical. A body or collection of such stories. A romanticized or popularized myth of modern times.” www.Dictionary.com Many times a legend evolves from a true story. A true story is told by one person to another, who tells another friend. When the friend tells a friend, he adds a few details of his own to make the story more exciting. As the story is told and retold, details are added and subtracted by the story tellers. Eventually a legend evolves that is handed down over time. What is an urban legend? According to www.Dictionary.com, an urban legend is “a story, which may have started with a grain of truth, that has been embroidered and retold until it has passed into the realm of myth. It is an interesting phenomenon that these stories get spread so far, so fast and so often. Urban legends never die, they just end up on the Internet! Some legends that periodically make their rounds includ
