Myth and legend are words that go together and are sometimes said to express the same thing. Myth: It is born and develops around an ideal, an idea abstract as love, value, beauty, wisdom, etc. Legend: Arises when the ideal, to the abstract idea is incarnates in human beings, plants animals and phenomena of nature, etc., and is endowed les sentiments, attitudes, etc. and they are wonderful, fabulous, made more fantastic than real and transmitted from generation to generation, both orally and in writing.