To keep their art alive, the slaves turned capoeira into a dance, and the berimbau, which had warned of an approaching master, began to accompany the dance itself.
Alongside this, though, in the Middle Ages weather observations were passed on in the form of proverbs, such as 'Red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning'.
The legend of the Loch Ness Monster has endured for centuries and starting last summer a new study was carried out that took 250 DNA samples from the lake.