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:
“The ties between gentle folk are as pure as water; the links between scoundrels are as thick as honey.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)
“One of the proud joys of the man of letters—if that man of letters is an artist—is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world’s memory.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)