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 myths about what we’re supposed to feel as new mothers run strong and deep. . . . While joy and elation are surely present after a new baby has entered our lives, it is also within the realm of possibility that other feelings might crop up: neediness, fear, ambivalence, anger.”
—Sally Placksin (20th century)
“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)
“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)