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Myths And Legends
“Beyond Myth and Legends: A Narrative History of Texas” is written by five university professors. There are twenty essays found within this book. These essays entitled “Myth & Legend’ are located at the end of each chapter. Storytelling is common to every culture. What are the myths and legends? Myths and legends are stories that have been told in the previous hundreds of years, and have been exceptionally popular on the planet for quite a while. There are debates of the stories that are told myths and legends. There are various likenesses and contrasts amongst myths and legends. A main contrast amongst myths and legends are that myths are stories that clarifies objects or occasions in this present reality that more often result from some phenomena or force like a god. Legends are stories that can be authentic and that can likewise be false. In other words, legends are more genuine than myths.
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This legend is about a young remarkable Spanish nun named Maria Coronel y Arana, who claimed that her spirit (through dreams) made 500 trips from 1620 to 1631 without physically leaving Spain. In this legend the Jumanos and Caddos told numerous stories of having been taught by the legendary Lady in Blue. Yet, realist believes that because of the location Agreda, she may have been exposed to information from journeymen and adventurers who passed near Maria’s home and think it is likely that King Felipe IV helped craft the story to prevent her from suffering dire hardships of the Spanish Inquisition. Between 1620 and 1631, Sister Maria routinely went into what is by all accounts cataleptic dazes, after which she portrayed an odd dream in which she was conveyed to an
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