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:
“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)
“... the first reason for psychology’s failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology’s failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.”
—Naomi Weisstein (b. 1939)
“The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient.... They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.”
—Strabo (c. 58 B.C.–c. 24 A.D., Greek geographer. Geographia, bk. 1, sct. 2, subsct. 8.