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:
“An’ when the earth’s as cauld’s the mune
An’ a’ its folk are lang syne deid,
On coontless stars the Babe maun cry
An’ the Crucified maun bleed.”
—Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)
“All of childhood’s unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
“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.”
—Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)