But this was extended, through myth and legend, to be seen as a generalized blessing.

On many islands, they were known only through legend, the song said.

They used the great beasts of the primordial sea for their own purposes, controlling fantastic monsters known to mankind only through legend.

But we come at this history more through allegory, myth and legend, than expository fact.

The parish of the church is connected through legend with Saint Willibrord.

He has said that to survive he attacked dictatorship obliquely through allegory and legend.

Peter is known to history primarily through unattributable legend.

Zoe started at that, until she remembered that mortals learned about many mages through myth and legend.

Details of Robinson's early life are known only through legend, much of it perpetuated by Robinson himself.

The bits about the directions; those are the 'four airts,' which you'll find running through Celtic legend for some way back.