legend: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Literary Devices - Legend Explained: Definition, Literary Use and Examples. Oct 10, 2026
Add new Web site: English Heritage - Where Do Myths, Legends and Folktales Come From? Oct 10, 2025
Questions and answers added. Mar 13, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - The Devil - Compact in Legends and Literature (PDF). Jan 22, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - An Introduction to Storytelling, Myths and Legends (PDF). Dec 13, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Structural and Motifemic Analysis of Legends. Oct 05, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Michigan Press - Legends Defned. May 18, 2024
Add new Web site: McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia - Legend. Feb 02, 2024
Corrected display issue. Jan 31, 2020
Add new Web site: Literary Devices - Legend Explained: Definition, Literary Use and Examples. Feb 25, 2016
Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Literary or Profane Legends. Apr 26, 2007
Added new Web site: Minneapolis Institute of Arts - World Myths and Legends. Jul 13, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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