These two words often evoke jointly, as the union of meanings between the two is spontaneous. A myth is a wonderful narrative starring gods, heroes, or fantastic characters that explains or gives meaning to certain facts or phenomena that are part of the belief system of a people or culture. A legend is a popular narrative that has a real event of its kind that is passed on in oral or written form from generation to generation, and includes elements of fiction and sometimes supernatural characters.
Myth and legend are words that go together and are sometimes said to express the same thing. Myth: It is born and develops around an ideal, an idea abstract as love, value, beauty, wisdom, etc. Legend: Arises when the ideal, to the abstract idea is incarnates in human beings, plants animals and phenomena of nature, etc., and is endowed les sentiments, attitudes, etc. and they are wonderful, fabulous, made more fantastic than real and transmitted from generation to generation, both orally and in writing.
