Legends

Legends of vampires flourish in the Balkans.

These legends should be handed down to our offspring.

There are many old Indian legends.

Myths and legends should be handed down from generation to generation.

There are a lot of legends in Japan.

The following fairy tales retold in English in 1918 were based on Dutch legends and collected in the book, Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks, 1918.

Recreational drug use inspires many urban legends.

There are many answers to this question, and people create many legends about the Devil’s stone: the human mind cannot calm down until it explains to itself the dark, the unknown, and the vague.

In Russia, as elsewhere in the world, folklore is rapidly scattering before the practical spirit of modern progress. The traveling peasant bard or story teller, and the devoted "nyanya", the beloved nurse of many a generation, are rapidly dying out, and with them the tales and legends, the last echoes of the nation's early joys and sufferings, hopes and fears, are passing away.

The stories in the Bible might be seen as interesting legends by Asians, but they are taken very seriously in the West.