Comment by ajuc
5 years ago
Another possible sources of such legends are fictional stories put into documents as page-fillers.
In my city there's court documents going 5 centuries back, and there was a tradition among scribes to fill the pages between separate cases with "obviously false cases" and other stories so nobody can add false details to the cases.
So there are stories about a sheep sueing a wolf and other classic jokes.
And in the actual court documents from 17th century there's a formally written letter signed "Pluton, lord of all hells" praising his protestant politicians for doing great job in the city :) At the time there was reformation and counterreformation going on.
And there were obviously legends based on that :)
That is hilarious. Are any of those documents available online?
I've searched for it, found mentions but no full text. Here's one example (in Polish): http://pther.net/PDF/Miscellanea/MIscellanea%20tom%2010.
It mentions an article by M. Trojanowska called "Wpisy epickie w księgach grodzkich lubelskich XVU-XVUI w." fully concerned with these "wpisy epickie" or "wpisy ludyczne" (epic/ludic entries)
It was published in „Biuletyn Lubelskiego Towarzystwa Naukowego”, tome 23, year 1981, no 1
Malformed link it appears!
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