History, Legends and Myths
A legend associated with the mountain is mentioned in chapter 41 of the American literary classic, Moby-Dick:
- "... the prodigies related in old times of the inland Strello mountain in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface)..."
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Famous quotes containing the words legends and/or myths:
“Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
“In New York—whose subway trains in particular have been “tattooed” with a brio and an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame—not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.... Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the “haves.””
—Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. “Cleaning and Cleansing,” Myths and Memories (1986)