Myths
Some laws have been revealed as hoaxes:
- That "sorority houses are illegal since more than a certain number of single females living together constitutes a brothel" has been debunked as fake.
- That it is legal to shoot Welsh person all day on a Sunday, with a longbow in the Cathedral Close, Hereford. - the Law Commission have confirmed that this is not the case. In a similar manner, the myth that it is legal to shoot a Welshman in the city of Chester after midnight with a crossbow has been debunked.
Read more about this topic: Dumb Laws
Famous quotes containing the word myths:
“The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient.... They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.”
—Strabo (c. 58 B.C.–c. 24 A.D., Greek geographer. Geographia, bk. 1, sct. 2, subsct. 8.
“What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one’s heroic ancestors. It’s astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn’t stay there any longer and had to go someplace else to make it. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.”
—Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. “Under the Sign of Cancer,” Myths and Memories (1986)