ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Folk tales, myths, and legends are all kinds of stories that were originally shared in spoken form. Usually taking the form of an allegorical tale (with a moral about living life in a good way), myths and legends often feature mythical creatures and famous heroes/warriors.

Detailed explanation-2: -Traditionally myths and legends were largely born from the need to provide an explanation for phenomena that people didn’t know or understand, like illness, death, love, war, social conventions or natural disasters like floods and earthquakes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Traditional literature is a genre that started in the oral tradition. Myths, fables, epics, ballads, legends, folk rhymes, folktales, fairy tales, trickster tales, tall tales, cumulative tales and pourquoi tales are part of this genre.

Detailed explanation-4: -From Folkloristics via Wikipedia: “Legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions perceived or believed both by teller and listeners to have taken place within human history.