legend
Let an agent explain what a legend is as a folklore genre, distinguish it from myth, folktale and history, identify kinds from saints legends to urban legends and internet horror, relay folklore scholarship with attribution, and separate the genre from the other senses of the word such as a map key.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Genre What a legend is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What defines a legend, and how does it differ from myth, folktale and history? definition
- Is the question about the folklore genre or another sense of legend? boundary
Kinds
Kinds.
Kinds
Kinds.
- What kinds of legend exist, from saints to urban and internet legends? definition
- Which entry fits the specific kind? action
Circulation How legends travel.
Transmission
Transmission and variants.
Transmission
Transmission.
- How do legends circulate, vary and adapt, including online? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Belief
Belief and truth claims.
Belief
Belief.
- How do communities relate to the truth of legends, and how is that studied? provenance
- Is a legend being presented as verified fact? boundary
Study Scholarship.
Classification
Indexes.
Classification
Classification.
- How are legends classified and archived by folklorists? provenance
- Which entry fits folklore archives? action
Theory
Theories.
Theory
Theory.
- What do folklorists say about the function and meaning of legends, with attribution? provenance
- Which entry fits folkloristics? action
Culture Legends in culture.
Media
Legends in media.
Media
Media.
- How are legends adapted in literature, film, games and online communities? provenance
- Which entry fits creepypasta? action
Heritage
Heritage and tourism.
Heritage
Heritage.
- How do communities use legends in identity and tourism? provenance
- Which entry fits intangible cultural heritage? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.MED
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Beati Paoli, creepypasta video game, creepypasta television series, creepypasta podcast, myth of origins, creepypasta, country origin myth, Scythian genealogical myth, Manchu founding mythology, cosmogonical myth, anthropogony, Androgynos
What it is Filled
A traditional story told as if historical, about a person, place or event, that circulates within a community and is believed by some or presented as plausible, distinct from myth, which concerns gods and origins, and from folktale, which is understood as fiction; legends include saints and heroes, local and urban legends, and modern internet forms such as creepypasta.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain what a legend is as a folklore genre, distinguish it from myth, folktale and history, identify kinds from saints legends to urban legends and internet horror, relay folklore scholarship with attribution, and separate the genre from the other senses of the word such as a map key.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Told as true or plausible
- Human protagonists in historical time
- Circulates with variants
- Includes modern and online forms
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Present legends as verified history.
- Spread modern legends that defame real people or groups.
- Retell sacred or restricted stories of a community without its consent.
- Confuse the genre with other senses of the word, such as a map key.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing stories that a community regards as restricted.
May
- Retell and explain legends with their community and source.
- Distinguish legend from myth, folktale and history.
Moral aspects Filled
- Legends carry the identity and memory of communities.
- Some legends have fuelled hatred, such as blood libel.
Who is affected
- Communities that hold the stories
- People named in legends
- Readers
Owners Filled
Steward
The public: held in common; communities are the custodians of their own stories.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q7832362 - registry parent class
- Q87482979 - registry parent class
related
- traditional story - a folklore genre
- myth - concerns gods and origins
- folktale - understood as fiction
- folkloristics - the discipline
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.legend
- Wikidata: Q44342 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44342)
- migratory legend types: Christiansen index classification of legend types
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Traditional narrative told as possibly true
- Set in historical time about people and places
- A map legend, a legendary person and a myth are other senses or genres
- Not visible; a story told orally, in writing or online.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the genre and its kinds
- distinguish legend from myth, folktale and history
- relay folklore scholarship with attribution
- separate the genre from other senses of legend
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Treating legends as verified history
- Confusing the genre with other senses of the word
- Spreading harmful urban legends as fact
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- No regulation; folklore archives and classifications document legends
Context of use required Filled
- Transmitting stories that a community treats as possibly true.
- legends of saints and heroes
- local and place legends
- origin legends of communities
- urban and contemporary legends
- internet legends such as creepypasta
- legend cycles such as the Beati Paoli
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q44342: legend - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Legend - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should urban legend be a separate entry?
- How should folklore archives be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases for creepypasta media and a Sicilian legend; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q44342/spec.json