Along with Google, hip Web surfers now Snopes anything having to do with urban legends, pop culture myths and general folklore. Take Mikey and the Pop Rocks. Mr. DAVID MIKKELSON (Snopes.com ...

DR. RAMSAY SMITH classifies the myths and legends of the Australian aborigines which he has collected in this volume into ‘origins’, that is, stories of the creation and beginnings of things ...

Children should be taught myths and legends at school because they are "models for a way of life", teaching them values and virtue by stealth, a Carnegie Medal-winning author has suggested.