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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- Folktexts A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology describing a variety of tales.
- The Best of Legends Exploring legends in history, folklore, literature, fiction, and the arts.
- Heroic Legends European legends from the Middle Ages, by Agnes Grozier Herbertson (1908), e-text from Kellscraft Studio.
- 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.
- Christ Legends Eleven legends retold by Selma Lagerlöf (1908); e-text at the Baldwin Project.
- The Book of Legends Popular legends retold by Horace E. Scudder (1900); e-text at the Baldwin Project.
- 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.