Keyword

legends

Description: Traditional narratives associated with particular people, places, or events, presented as historical or culturally meaningful within folklore.

Primary topic: Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (42%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q44342

OpenAlex ID: keywords/legends

Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late-Medieval Jews

1999 · Miri Rubin · 355

The Forms of Folklore: Prose Narratives

1965 · William Bascom · Journal of American Folklore · 328

The bloody chamber and other stories

1981 · Angela Carter · 217

The large enriched germanium experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay (LEGEND)

2017 · N. Abgrall, A. Abramov, et al. · AIP conference proceedings · 215

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The Photian Schism: History and Legend

1949 · Milton V. Anastos, Francis Dvornik. · The American Historical Review · 191

The hidden dragons.

2003 · Ming Zeng, Peter J Williamson · PubMed · 141

The resurrection of Mary Magdalene: legends, apocrypha, and the Christian testament

2002 · Choice Reviews Online · 134

Myths, Stories, and Organizations

2004 · 132

Ovid's Tomb: The Growth of a Legend from Eusebius to Laurence Sterne, Chateaubriand and George Richmond

1973 · J. B. Trapp · Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes · 128

Sagen und Legenden Uber Kaiser Basileios I

1961 · Gyula Moravcsik · Dumbarton Oaks Papers · 126

American folklore and the mass media

1994 · Choice Reviews Online · 121

Sub‐roman Britain: History and Legend1

1977 · DAVID N. DUMVILLE · History · 115

Once upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception

2009 · Gary Alan Fine · Journal of American Folklore · 114

Current joint therapy usage in equine practice: A survey of veterinarians 2009

2011 · D. J. FERRIS, D. D. FRISBIE, et al. · Equine Veterinary Journal · 107

A Dictionary of English Folklore

2003 · Jacqueline Simpson, Steve Roud · Oxford University Press eBooks · 107

The economic uses and associated folklore of ferns and fern allies

1978 · Lenore Wile May · The Botanical Review · 100

Dracula

2011 · Heiko Haumann · C.H.Beck eBooks · 99

Virgin martyrs: legends of sainthood in late medieval England

1998 · Choice Reviews Online · 99

St Wulfstan's Staff: a Legend and Its Uses

1984 · MASON · Medium Ævum · 98

The Photian schism, history and legend

1970 · Francis Dvorník · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 98

Mitos, leyendas y cuentos peruanos

1947 · José María Arguedas, Francisco Izquierdo Ríos · Ministerio de Cultura · 96

John, the son of Zebedee: the life of a legend

1994 · Choice Reviews Online · 95

The Cheyenne Indians: their history and ways of life

1962 · George Bird Grinnell · University of Nebraska Press eBooks · 94

Legend and belief: dialectics of a folklore genre

2002 · Choice Reviews Online · 93

Anacharsis, the legend and the apophthegmata

1981 · Jan Fredrik Kindstrand · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 91

Works count: 39,770

Citation count: 23,910