... Our grandfather was intimately acquainted with all the traditionary legends which that great writer has since made use of in the "Tales of a Grandfather" and other works...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...This was always a land of shadows and legends, where fearfulcannibals dwelt and where no Egyptian or Ethiopian or Sudanesearmies dared to go...
W.E.B. Du Bois 「The Negro」
...We might easily, indeed, havemade it much larger, had our design been to chaintogether, link by link, all the traditions and legends inwhich the cow plays a primary or subordinate part...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...This exchange of headsseems to be common to the traditions which are foundedupon the myth of the Açvinâu, that is, to the legends of thetwo brother or companion heroes...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...The lovers of tragic histories will find many of the most fearful kindamong the legends of all countries where wolves abound; all probablyfounded on fact, but mostly interwoven with romance...
R. Lee 「Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals」
...I begin by setting forth the few facts and legends which havecome down to us on the subject...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...We must askourselves, Why did the author of these legends pitch upon Orestesand Hippolytus in order to explain Virbius and the King of theWood? In regard to Orestes, the answer is obvious...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...—The use of sweetly scented oil, in raising the dead, is found in Dayak legends...
Fay-Cooper Cole 「Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore」
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