Legenda: Perbedaan antara revisi

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Banyak legenda beroperasi dalam wilayah ketidakpastian, tidak pernah sepenuhnya dipercayai oleh para pencerita dan pendengarnya, tetapi juga tidak pernah mentah-mentah diragukan.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Georges, Robert|author2=Owens, Michael|year=1995|title=Folkloristics|url=https://archive.org/details/folkloristicsint0000geor|location=United States of America|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0-253-32934-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/folkloristicsint0000geor/page/7 7]}}</ref> Legenda terkadang dibedakan dengan [[mitos]] karena menyangkut manusia sebagai karakter utamanya, ketimbang dewa-dewi, dan terkadang legenda juga memiliki semacam dasar sejarah sedangkan mitos umumnya tidak.<ref name="Oxford literary">{{cite book|last1=Baldick|first1=Chris|date=2015|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198715443.001.0001/acref-9780198715443-e-646?rskey=Nc4w5m&result=9|title=Legend|website=The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (4 ed.)|publisher=Oxford University Press - Oxford Reference Online|isbn=978-0-19-871544-3|quote=A story or group of stories handed down through popular oral tradition, usually consisting of an exaggerated or unreliable account of some actually or possibly historical person—often a saint, monarch, or popular hero. Legends are sometimes distinguished from myths in that they concern human beings rather than gods, and sometimes in that they have some sort of historical basis whereas myths do not; but these distinctions are difficult to maintain consistently. The term was originally applied to accounts of saints' lives..}}</ref><ref name="bascom">{{cite book|last=Bascom|first=William Russell|year=1965|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=AU0hNAAACAAJ}}|title=The Forms of Folklore: Prose Narratives|publisher=University of California|pages=4–5, 9|quote=Myths are often associated with theology and ritual. Their main characters are not usually human beings, but they often have human attributes; they are animals, deities, or culture heroes, whose actions are set in an earlier world, when the earth was different from what it is today, or in another world such as the sky or underworld....Legends are more often secular than sacred, and their principal characters are human. They tell of migrations, wars and victories, deeds of past heroes, chiefs, and kings, and succession in ruling dynasties.|author-link=William Bascom}}</ref>