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I .E .S . SAAVEDRA FAJARDO, MURCIA

P R O F E S O R A : LO L A M E S E G U E R

British Folklore

LEGEND OF WALES RED DRAGON

According to the tradition, the origin of the red dragon flag pictured in Wales comes from an ancient conflict between these two beasts, a white and a red dragon. The white dragon is said to be the incarnation of evil. There was a problem, and it was that the constant clashes between these two dragons caused human damage, and if a human listened to the sound of these dragons fighting, the human would live without descendants.

Llud, the monarch of Great Britain, decided to find a solution to this big conflict and he asked for help to his wise brother Llefelys. He thought to dig a big hole in the centre of the kingdom and then fill it of mead, for dragons to get drunk and be easier to defeat. His plan functioned half, because both beasts got caught during centuries, but they stayed alive.

A long time after, a new king called Gwrtheyrn decided to build a castle above the prision of dragons, discovering both creatures in his captivity. Gwrtheyrn asked for help to the illoustrious wizard Merlin, who advised him to release the beasts so that they could continue with their battle. When they were free, the fight between them finished with the victory of the red dragon. Because of it, there is a red dragon in the Welsh flag.

ByPablo Gómez GarcíaJavier Llorente RipollLaura Muñoz SahelicesNicolás Navarro Urios

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KING

ARTHUR

HISTORY According to the legend , it all started when

pendragon lost a battle and sank excalibur into a rock. Years later his bastard son arthur got it out of the rock, which no knight had managed before. After removing it, some knights and other people were to have turned against Arthur which unleashed a war that was won by arthur knights. Arthur, years later got married with Geneve , the daughter of a feudal lord .

Geneve was unfaithful to Arthur with Lacelot and the kingdom started to downfall.

Later Arthur had a son with his own sister, Morgana , who declared war against him but King Arthur was no longer able to fight after the disgrace of Lancelot.

After a while, one of the knights found the holy grail, with that Arthur was recovered and won the war to his stepson.

knights of the round table.

It’s a very famous legend about King Arthur and his best knights. All of them sat around a round table and they celebrated their meetings there.

Some of his best knights were Lancelot, Tristain and probably there was a special place for Merlín the wizard.

King arthur and excalibur.

Athur was very famous forhis sword, Excalibur. This sword was magic because only Arthur could extract it from its rock.

Álvaro Alemán Leonardo Marín Daniel García Jesús Barranquero

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VAMPIRESBy Elena Martínez,

Katy Chávez, Lucía Fernández

y Bea Pérez.

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Typical 8 myths of vampires:

1 – It is typical to say that vampires sleep in coffins because they see them as a practical place to rest.

2 - It is said that garlic is a repellent for vampires, since

vampires followed the smell of blood and garlic camouflages the smell of living things.

3 - To kill a vampire it is necessary to drive a stake through his heart to immobilize the vampire in his grave and not disturb others again.

4 - Being a nocturnal creature, sunlight is annoying for them.

5- Vampires can transform into any mammal bat and that allows them to fly.

6- Vampires are not reflected in the mirrors because they haven´t a soul.

7- Vampires hate crosses because for them it is a spiritual weapon against them.

ANKOU.

The Ankou was a grim harvester of souls from the dark side of Britain, once believed to ride the dark lanes of Brittany in search of unwary travellers and the benighted.

Both in this country as in Germany, it was said that these items were also hunting the souls of the unbaptized, and in France, similar legends say that King Herod prosecutes the Holy Innocents.

Thus, over time, the legends were modified, and the nineteenth century hunts souls became the devil who had souls, or if applicable, any villain executed, along with some howling dogs, in an eternal journey to hell.

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LEPRECHAUN

Who is he? He is a type of elf who lives in Ireland,

belonging to Irish mythology, and is said to inhabit other creatures.

They are often associated with strong fairies. They usually take the form of old men who enjoy making mischief.

What is the legend? His job is to make orange shoes. This

legend comes from Ireland and, according to it, at the end of the rainbow, there is a great gold pot which is guarded by trolls.

Witches

The legend The legend of the Witch of Wookey Hole

is the story of a cave. The legend says that during the Middle Age people threw all the blame for everything that went wrong in the village on an old woman who lived alone in the deep, dark caves of Wookey Hole. The villagers believed that the witch cast spells and misfortune. Finally, people decided to seek help from a monk to exorcise the spirit of the witch.

In the darkness, he saw the witch leaning over her cauldron. He tried to talk to her, shouthing curses and spells but she fled to the depths of the cave, along a narrow passage called the Stairway to Hell. Brother Bernard took some water from the river, blessed it and threw it on the witch, turning her into stone.

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The Gremlins

What are gremlins? The gremlins are mythological creatures.They are evil and are associated with the

sabotage of aeroplanes.

They gained popularity in the World War II, above all with the UK’s pilots. Some of them blamed gremlins for unexplained accidents. They also thought gremlins had sympathies with the enemy, but they discovered that enemies had the same problems, gremlins were pictured as liars that just wanted to lark.

Lark: make jokes

• They live in clouds and hangars

• Clouds Hangars

• There are a lot of films and series in which gremlins have been involved or they have just appeared. Some are The Gremlins , The Simpsons and more

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