Folk Heroes Known To Be Fictional
- Pecos Bill - United States, giant cowboy who "tamed the wild west"
- Paul Bunyan - United States, giant lumberjack of the North Woods
- Febold Feboldson - United States, farmer who could fight a drought
- Martín Fierro - Argentina, hero of the eponymous poem by Jose Hernandez
- Koba - Georgia, folk hero whose legend bears a resemblance to Robin Hood
- Joe Magarac - United States, steelworker made of steel
- Alfred Bulltop Stormalong - United States, immense sailor whose ship was so big it scraped the moon
- 陳真/Chen Zhen - China,Martial Artist who fought Japanese influence in Shanghai
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Famous quotes containing the words folk, heroes and/or fictional:
“Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have “really happened,” or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.”
—Northrop Frye (1912–1991)
“We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we need the help of other men—we need our fathers to model for us and then to anoint us, we need our buddies to share the coming-of-age rituals with us and to let us join the team of men, and we need myths of heroes to inspire us and to show us the way.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.”
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