legendary narrative

C29101
concept

A legendary narrative is a traditional story, often rooted in historical events or figures, that has been embellished over time with mythical or supernatural elements to convey cultural values or explain the extraordinary.

All labels observed (33)

Label Occurrences
heroic tale 6
medieval legend 4
hagiographical narrative 3

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: legendary narrative
Generated description
A legendary narrative is a traditional story, often rooted in historical events or figures, that has been embellished over time with mythical or supernatural elements to convey cultural values or explain the extraordinary.

Instances (45)

Instance Via concept surface
Acts of Saint Susanna hagiographical legend
Doctrine of Addai
Biag ni Lam-ang Philippine epic
Woolpit
surface form: Green Children of Woolpit
medieval legend
Voyage of Saint Brendan hagiographical narrative
Salur Kazanun Evinin Yagmalandigi Boy heroic episode
Bamsi Beyrek Boyu heroic tale
Duha Koca Oglu Deli Dumrul Boyu heroic tale
Kanli Koca Oglu Kan Turali Boyu heroic tale
Basat’in Tepegözü Öldürdüğü Boy heroic tale
Salur Kazan’in Esir Olduğu Boy heroic tale
Salur Kazan’in Yedi Baslı Ejderhayı Öldürdüğü Boy heroic episode
trial of Saint Eulalia hagiographic episode
Itihasa ancient Indian narrative tradition
Darangen Philippine epic
Rape of the Sabine Women (mythological event)
surface form: Rape of the Sabine Women
legendary episode
Legend of Noccalula Cherokee legend
Saint Christopher (prose narrative) hagiographic narrative
Ayaymama legend folklore narrative
Genesis 1 creation narrative
Acts of Bartholomew (apocryphal tradition)
surface form: Acts of Bartholomew
hagiographical narrative
Khwadāy-Nāmag legendary chronicle
King George II stood during a London performance popular legend
Seven Labors legendary series of heroic trials
Khamba Thoibi legend heroic tale
Ulster Cycle body of heroic legend
legendarium of Middle-earth legendarium
the Locker
surface form: Davy Jones' Locker
nautical legend
Tobiume (flying plum tree) legend folklore narrative
British national mythology symbolic narrative tradition
Sleeping Beauty legend folk narrative
miracle of the fish with the ring medieval legend
Origo Gentis Langobardorum origin legend
The Tale of the Two Brothers ancient Egyptian narrative
The Myth of Anzû ancient narrative
Flight of the Noldor legendarium concept
Solomon and the hoopoe traditional tale
Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg medieval legend
medieval lives of Saint George
surface form: Medieval Lives of Saint George
hagiographical narrative
Jukurrpa creation narrative
Tjilbruke Dreaming ancestral story
Holy Grail legends medieval legend
Beren and Lúthien’s quest legendary tale
Beauty and the Beast (traditional fairy tale) European folk narrative
Dick Whittington and His Cat traditional tale