Quote Originally Posted by Finback View Post
All good. I'm wondering if it was the NatGeo one. I'm moreso curious because of the idea that this would explain the myth - sometimes, this is actually backwards. Case in point: the Jersey Devil. There never WAS a Jersey Devil, but people now keep trying to explain the legend by pointing to real world things, but this presumes there ever was a real event to trigger it. They may be trying to explain the myth with a real example, but are fitting the narrative of the site to the myth, when there may not have been any basis in reality for the myth.
Yeah, that's always true. According to my mythology class in college a myth may be true or false, but no one knows the origin of the story and a people believe or act as though they believe it even though it's not proven.