But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

This has been his first encounter with mankind, and, although he has now become a legendary figure in the popular European press, it leaves him profoundly dissatisfied.

In his final years, he was a legendary and heroic figure to some of the young writers and artists in Paris.

* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.

The Delphic Sibyl was a legendary prophetic figure who was said to have given prophecies at Delphi shortly after the Trojan War.

If so, then this legendary figure would also be the descended from Munju of Baekje.

Later, he became a legendary figure and the model of a tough, courageous Roman, and was bestowed the honorific title, " The Shield of Rome " ( similar to Marcus Claudius Marcellus being named the " Sword of Rome ").

It was also around this time that the legendary figure of Hermes Trismegistus developed as a conflation of the Egyptian god Thoth and the Greek Hermes ; this figure was associated with both writing and magic, and therefore of books on magic.

It is crucial, however, not to underestimate the creative and transforming power of subsequent tradition: for instance, Achilles, the most important character of the Iliad, is strongly associated with southern Thessaly, but his legendary figure is interwoven into a tale of war whose kings were from the Peloponnese.

* John Draper: A legendary figure in the computer programming world.

Some scholars have described Isaac as " a legendary figure " while others view him " as a figure representing tribal history, though as a historical individual " or " as a seminomadic leader.

* 1412 – Joan of Arc, French military figure and Roman Catholic Saint ( legendary date ) ( d. 1431 )

The legendary Arthur developed as a figure of international interest largely through the popularity of Geoffrey of Monmouth's fanciful and imaginative 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae ( History of the Kings of Britain ).

Kagoshima was the birthplace and scene of the last stand of Saigō Takamori, a legendary figure in Meiji Japan in 1877 at the end of the Satsuma Rebellion.

* Ket, thought to be a name of the Celtic legendary figure Ceridwen

To distinguish the masculine " Malinche " from the feminine, the prefix " La " gives the name by which the historical and legendary figure is best known: La Malinche.

Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in the Arthurian legend.

The name " Merlin " derives from the Welsh Myrddin, the name of the bard Myrddin Wyllt, one of the chief sources for the later legendary figure.

Even though some historians emphasize folklore roots for the Rurik legend and consequently dismiss Rurik as a legendary figure, there is a controversy about his ethnic origins in Eastern Europe.

There was a folk etymology that supported a derivation based on the legendary figure of Mrs. ( Frau ) Perchta, Berchta, a woman ( Holle < Holda ‘ well disposed, dear ’) with good and bad changing features, who was venerated on Perchtertag (= Three Kings Day ) and at Shrovetide was sworn to during the Perchta procession.

The great violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini was a legendary figure who, as a composer, exploited the technical potential of his instrument to its very limits.

In Greek mythology, Menelaus (, Menelaos ) was a legendary king of Mycenaean ( pre-Dorian ) Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, and a central figure in the Trojan War.

Since the 2nd century, a mass of legendary detail has accumulated around the figure of Joseph of Arimathea in addition to the New Testament references.

Humber the Hun was a legendary king of the Nordic " Huns " as accounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

He is a character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad, and receives full treatment in Roman mythology as the legendary founder of what would become Ancient Rome, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid.

In Greek mythology, the perceived cultural divisions among the Hellenes were represented as legendary lines of descent that identified kinship groups, with each line being derived from an eponymous ancestor.

Further evidence for elves in Norse mythology comes from Skaldic poetry, the Poetic Edda and legendary sagas.

In Celtic mythology there is a legend of a cave called " Cruachan ," also known as " Ireland's gate to Hell ," a legendary and ancient cave from which according to legend strange creatures would emerge in ancient times and be seen on the surface of the earth.

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth ( Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos, possibly the building complex at Knossos ) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.

* Harā Bərəzaitī, a legendary mountain in Persian mythology

An etiological myth can be a " reverse eponym " in the sense that a legendary character is invented in order to explain a term, such as the nymph Pirene ( mythology ), who according to myth was turned into Pirene's Fountain.

In Greek mythology, the Titans ( Greek: — Ti-tan ; plural: — Ti-tânes ) were a primeval race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia ( Earth ) and Uranus ( Heaven ), that ruled during the legendary Golden Age.

This part of the opera is primarily inspired by the story of the legendary hero Sigurd in Norse mythology.

* Paris ( mythology ), legendary figure of the Trojan War

Chinese dragons are legendary creatures in Chinese mythology and folklore.

A number of legendary bards in Welsh mythology have been preserved in medieval Welsh literature such as the Red Book of Hergest, the White Book of Rhydderch, the Book of Aneirin and the Book of Taliesin.

In Greek mythology, Melampus, or Melampous (), was a legendary soothsayer and healer, originally of Pylos, who ruled at Argos.

In Greek mythology, Oenopion ( Ancient Greek:, Oinopion, English translation: " wine drinker ", " wine-faced "), son of hero Theseus or god Dionysus and princess Ariadne, was a legendary king of Chios, which was assigned to him by Rhadamanthys, and was said to have brought winemaking to the island.

According to Greek mythology and legendary prehistory of the Aegean region, the Minyans () were an autochthonous group inhabiting the Aegean region.

The Lapiths () are a legendary people of Greek mythology, whose home was in Thessaly, in the valley of the Peneus and on the mountain Pelion.

In Roman mythology, Caeculus ( meaning " little blind boy ", from caecus " blind ")) was a son of Vulcan, and the legendary founder of Praeneste ( modern Palestrina ).

Similarly, it might refer specifically to Corb, one of the legendary Fomorians of Irish mythology.

In Irish mythology, Fiacha (, sometimes Fiachu, Fiachra or Fiachna ), son of Delbáeth, of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was a legendary High King of Ireland.

** Fionn mac Cumhail ( Finn mac Cumhal ; anglicised to Finn McCool ), a legendary warrior of Irish mythology

European dragons are legendary creatures in folklore and mythology among the overlapping cultures of Europe.

Manco Cápac ( Quechua Manqu Qhapaq " founder royal ") was the legendary first Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco and a figure of Inca mythology.

* Kui ( Chinese mythology ) 夔, a one-legged mountain demon, also legendary inventor of music and dance