There exist at least a few legends which tie his birth to a particular place, for example the village of Fakia in Strandzha, though evidence is nonexistent.
Sokolov — who is today the arts editor of the Wall Street Journal — concluded his Pujol review with a sly line that, around the Newsweek office at least, made him a legend in his own time: "His fin-de-siècle antics may not be to everyone's taste, but to a great many cultivated sensibilities, they definitely smack of art".
Their brawl has become a legend, not least because neither man has ever explained what was behind it.
When I arrived there as a student not many years later, he was already a legend, not least because of his final examination papers.
Superficially it seems as though he might have been a legend (or at least a different kind of legend) had he not been born at a time of astonishing abundance in West Indies fast bowling, but that was not his fate.
But its virtual indestructibility has made it a legend — or at least the subject of countless internet memes.
After an Lithuanian interior ministry "specialist" published an article proclaiming the Holocaust to be a "legend" (he, at least, has since resigned), seven European ambassadors, from Britain, Estonia (this one a truly delightful surprise!), Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden issued a bold letter of protest.
"At least I'm going to be a legend.
Bears are an institution in Bern too, the city's name being derived – at least in legend – from a bear killed by its founder, Duke Berchtold of Zähringen, while out hunting.
But no one ever claimed it, and the prize still lives, in legend at least; a 1997 issue of Canadian Sport Fishing magazine mentioned it, and others in the field say they have heard of it.
