Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.
There were grammatical errors even in his silence.
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.