Does anyone have any black myths and/or legends??I looked all over the web and didn't find any.?

Question

Ok to the first person that answered my question.what the hell is wrong with you???I hope your not black,because you give all of US(yes i said us,cuz i'm black myself)a bad name.And as for that urban legend it can go to hell right in behind you,in front of you, to the side of you idc where just as long as you end there.

Answer 1

Well first what do you mean by black myths? Do you mean the black race, or do you black as in evil?

Answer 2

Check out the book, "The Dark -Thirty:Southern Tales of the Supernatural" by Patricia Mc Kissack and J. Brian Pinkney.. They were usually told by a Grandmother on the front porch to the children in the summer. The title comes from a saying, "You better be home by Dark Thirty." It is my favorite book on the subject. It is the 1993 Coretta Scott King Award Winner. I guarantee you'll never forget them. I still get chills when I think of some of them. Especially the lady with the baby on the bus.

Answer 3

the candyman, from Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project

Helen Lyle is writing a paper on urban legends when she hears about the Candyman, who was once an ex-slave-turned-artist name Daniel Robitaille, who had an affair his client's daughter. Robitaille's right hand was chopped off, he was covered in honey, and stung to death by bees. If anyone says the word "Candyman" five times in a mirror, he'll appear behind that person, a bloody hook as a replacement for his hand, and kill him. A series of unsolved murders is happening in the Cabrini Green projects and Helen is using this to help with her paper. The residents say the Candyman is to blame, but Helen doesn't believe it. Until she meets the man with a hook for a hand. Now, he's begun to murder her friends and no one believes her.

oh yeah, John Henry, the steel driving man was black

Answer 4

Dear Child ,Do you know any old people from the south? A lot of Back folklore is also white folklore. If not go to a local nursing home and volunteer. You'd be surprised at the stories you will hear

Answer 5

I did a pretty thorough search as well. I couldn't find a whole lot. I did find a couple of links below I thought were interesting. Might I suggest doing a search by state or region. Southern states especially have African-American folktales among their state lore. Happy searching.

Answer 6

do the brer rabbit and brer fox stories count. possibly the stories of the Underground Railway to Canada in the slave days. then there is the buffalo soldiers and the black airmen of WW2, they made a movie about them,I think it was called Tuskegee Airmen or something similar. It is not part of my culture so I do not know.
both of these are legendary stories, I hope they help.

Answer 7

try this?
I don't think you looked very hard.
you have to search under folktales for myths and legends sometimes.
also you can adopt most folktales to your culture just change a couple of names and places
in fact I saw a folktale once that was attributed to african americans in the south and latter found the same story from the 15th century in europe
http://www.afro.com/children/myths/myths.html

Answer 8

no, why? wtf?
i dont' worry myself on a daily basis about things like this.
what do you mean "black myths"? like black people?
thats like saying "black people" dont really exist.
black myths
yeah, theres an urban legond that if you ask "does anyone have any black myths and/or leagonds" on yahoo answers, they will
come in the middle of the night for you.

Answer 9

I have heard that black women put menstrual blood in their spaghetti to make their men loyal! It is gross and I don't even want to know if it is true or not. I had a black friend confirm that it is true black women do this. I don't know any others.

Answer 10

google "african myths" and "african legends" - you have to go back to your place of origin to get a lot of stories, like Anansi.

try "black history"

the information is all over the web you just have to know how to search for it.