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Usage examples of legends.

It is from these two faiths and the folk religion of the ordinary people which they inspired that the majority of the tales and legends in this book come.

Their legends and myths, dating back to over two thousand years BC, have been passed down to this century through spoken and written traditions.

As such they usually lack a certain vitality which is the hallmark of the other major source of Chinese myths and legends - the folk or popular tales.

These strange 'men of the mountains', the Taoist adepts, are frequently found in the tales and legends of China.

It is from this wonderfully rich, intense and highly-charged mixture that the strength, vitality and fundamental attraction of the Chinese tales and legends come.

It does undoubtedly tell us much of the most ancient legends of modern Europe which could not have been known without it.

It is itself the connecting-link between the Old World and the New, written, so far as can be ascertained, at the time when the literary energies of the ancient world were dead, when the literatures of modern Europe had not been born,[1] in a country that had no share in the ancient civilisation of Rome, among a people which still retained many legends and possibly a rudimentary literature drawn from ancient Celtic sources, and was producing the men who were the earliest classical scholars of the modern world.

It is a piece of antiquarian information, possibly correct, and should serve to remind us that the original form of these legends was probably of a barbaric kind, before they were taken in hand by the literary men who gave to the best forms of the romances the character they now have.

This prince, though the hero of numerous romantic legends, appears greater in history than in fiction.

But Kethol was by nature and disposition suspicious of legends, and aware that his own abilities seemed magical to those who hadn't been raised in the wild.

But Kethol was by nature and disposition suspicious of legends, and aware that his own abilities seemed magical to those who hadn’t been raised in the wild.