legend: Quick Facts

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Topics

Giovanni Buttadeo vampire werewolf Zwarte Piet bogeyman Today in History—July 12: The Day Wild Bill’s Legend Started Today in History—July 10: Lady Godiva’s Legendary (Emphasis on Legend) Ride chupacabra Pied Piper of Hamelin Baijini urban legend Trickster tale Märchen ballad African American folktale proverb fable Today in History—December 20: “Hansel and Gretel” and the Gingerbread Boom riddle adage

Key People

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Guido Delle Colonne

Italian author

János Mailáth, lithograph by J. Ruprecht.

János, Count Mailáth

Hungarian author

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Joseph Bédier

French scholar

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Wilhelm Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

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Anatole Le Braz

Breton folklorist and author

Thomas Croker, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Thomas Crofton Croker

Irish antiquary