This is a list of some famous legends and myths from around the world. As a neutral encyclopedia, Wikipedia does not accept or deny any of these legends as real or false.==Some legends and myths from around the world==

Curses

• Irish Leprechaun
• The Poltergeist curse
• The Rebel Without a Cause curse
• The Curse Of King Tutankhamun
• The Curse of the Bambino
• The curse of the first and second boxers Davey Moore
• The Billy Goat curse
• The Curse of the Colonel
• The Curse of Billy Penn
• The Hope Diamond Curse
• The Kennedy Curse
• The Tails Doll Curse
• The Madden curse
• The Overtoun bridge dog deaths
• The Sports Illustrated cover "curse"
• The Seinfeld Curse
• Tecumseh's Curse

Look up Curse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A modern stereotypical depiction of a Leprechaun of the type popularised in the 20th Century. ... The Poltergeist curse is an urban legend that a supposed curse is/was attached to the Poltergeist motion picture series and its stars. ... The Rebel Without A Cause Curse is a supposed curse attached to the movie Rebel Without a Cause, released in 1955. ... Nebkheperure Lord of the forms of Re Nomen Tutankhaten Living Image of the Aten Tutankhamun Hekaiunushema Living Image of Amun, ruler of Upper Heliopolis Horus name Kanakht Tutmesut The strong bull, pleasing of birth Nebty name Neferhepusegerehtawy One of perfect laws, who pacifies the two lands [1] Golden Horus Wetjeskhausehetepnetjeru... Babe Ruth -- The Bambino The Curse of the Bambino was an urban myth or scapegoat cited as a reason for the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series after they sold Babe Ruth, sometimes called The Bambino, to the New York Yankees. ... David S. Davey Moore (1933-1963) was an American world champion boxer who boxed professionally from 1953-1963. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Curse of the Billy Goat, or Billy Goat Curse is the name of an urban myth, superstition, used to explain the World Series drought that Major League Baseballs Chicago Cubs have had to endure since their last appearance in the 1945 World Series, and their last World Series... Curse of the Colonel refers to a reputed curse placed on the Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers baseball team by deceased KFC founder and mascot, Col. ... The Curse of William Penn (supposedly begun in March 1987) is an alleged curse sometimes used to explain the failure of professional sports teams based in the American city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to win championships in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ... Hope Diamond in museum The Hope Diamond is a large (45. ... The Kennedy Curse refers to a series of unfortunate events that have happened to the Kennedy family. ... Donovan McNabb on the cover of Madden 06, allegedly cursed The Madden Curse, also known as the Madden Cover Curse, is a speculation involved with the Madden NFL video game series. ... The Overtoun Bridge is a bridge located near Milton, Dumbarton, Scotland, over the Overtoun Burn. ... The first issue of Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1954, showing Milwaukee Braves star Eddie Matthews at bat in Milwaukee County Stadium. ... Seinfeld is a television sitcom, considered to be one of the most popular and influential of the 1990s in the U.S., to the point where it is often cited as epitomizing the self-obsessed and ironic culture of the decade. ... The term Tecumsehs curse or zero-year curse is sometimes used to describe a chain of events that began with the death of United States President William Henry Harrison from pneumonia. ...

Monsters

• The Abominable Snowman
• Godzilla
• BooDuck Klan
• The Loch Ness Monster
• Vampires
• The Bigfoot sightings

The Yeti is the Western name given to a large primate-like creature reported to live in the Himalayas. ... Godzilla, as portrayed during his latest film from the Millennium series. ... The famous Surgeons photo (1934), today known to be a hoax. ... Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires or vampyres are mythological or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy). ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ...

Religious

• Marian apparitions: the reported sightings of the Virgin Mary
• Golem of Prague

Apparition of The Virgin to St Bernard by Filippino Lippi (1486) Oil on panel, 210 x 195 cm Church of Badia, Florence Marian apparitions are events in which the Virgin Mary is purported to have supernaturally appeared to one or more persons, typically Catholics, in various settings. ... Blessed Virgin Mary A traditional Catholic picture sometimes displayed in homes. ... In Jewish folklore, a golem (גולם, sometimes [as in Yiddish] pronounced goilem) is an animated being which is crafted from inanimate material. ... Prague (Czech: Praha (IPA: ), see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ...

Others

• El Cuco
• The Bermuda Triangle disappearances
• The Cayey, Puerto Rico Charca del Pato area ghosts
• The Chupacabras
• The Devil's Sea
• The Bennington Triangle
• The Grim Reaper
• The reported sightings of many celebrities who are supposed to be dead, most notably Elvis.
• The Hand of Glory
• The Mount Taranaki legend

--203.219.252.178 06:53, 23 October 2006 (UTC)--203.219.252.178 06:53, 23 October 2006 (UTC) El Coco is a Latin American mythical monster. ... Map of the popularly-held dimensions of the Bermuda Triangle; recent claims by researchers allude to a more trapezium shape, extending back into the Gulf of Mexico and down into the Caribbean Sea, or in fact no dimensions at all, and a shape incorporating all of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. ... Cayey is a mountain town in central Puerto Rico. ... The Chupacabra is a creature that resembles a living gargoyle said to exist in parts of Latin America, mostly Puerto Rico. ... Miyake Island about 100 km south of Tokyo The Devils Sea is a region of the Pacific around Miyake Island, about 100 km south of Tokyo. ... The Bennington Triangle The term Bennington Triangle was coined by New England author Joseph A. Citro during a public radio broadcast in 1992 to denote an area of southwestern Vermont within which a number of persons went missing between 1945 and 1950. ... Death, as a skeleton carrying a scythe, visiting a dying man. ... The Hand of Glory is the dried and pickled hand of a man who has been hanged, often specified as being the left hand. ... According to legend, Taranaki—Te Maunga o Taranaki—is a mountain god that lived peacefully for many centuries in the centre of New Zealands North Island with other mountain gods, Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu. ...

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