ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin is an example of a local legend that sometimes travels. Many other European towns have a similar legend of a piper who lured their children away.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is a Legend? A legend is an unverifiable or non-historical story that has been handed down by tradition, and is popularly accepted as true and/or historical.

Detailed explanation-3: -Myths, legends, fables and folktales are types of stories originally passed by word-of-mouth, but are now found in writing. They vary in their subject matter, from explaining the natural world and delivering life lessons, to exaggerated events and people grounded in history.

Detailed explanation-4: -countable noun. If you refer to someone as a legend, you mean that they are very famous and admired by a lot of people.