Place name legends and why a landscape collects stories

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Many myth systems put the first humans underground before they come up Legends of buried treasure usually add a rule that the finder must keep silent Paul Bunyan and the tall tale invented on the American frontier The flood myth appears on four continents and each version blames a different human failing Why flood myths appear in cultures that never met The white lady legend is always attached to a bridge rather than to a house The river spirit tale ends kindly upstream and cruelly downstream Every old mining town has a story about a tunnel that reaches the next valley The headless rider's horse changes colour from village to village A legend loses its grip once the old road it describes is paved over

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