Or so an ancient legend goes at least.

至少古代神话故事是这样讲述的。

In fairy tales witches often use magic to change persons into animals or birds.

在神话故事中，巫婆常使用魔术将人变成动物或鸟。

Over the generations, many myths have abounded about the Canary Islands.

几代以来，加那利群岛盛传许多 神话故事。

In the Samburu creation story, wildlife belong to women.

桑布鲁的神话故事中，野生动物属于女人。

But first, let’s start with the myth.

但首先让我们先来说一下这神话故事。

What explains the power of all this modern-day mythology?

当代神话故事为何有如此大的魅力？

And that myth found a new home in the American pumpkin patch, thanks to a little 19th century prank that became popular among kids in rural New England.

这则神话故事在美国的南瓜地里找到了新的归宿，这要归功于19行于新英格兰乡孩子们之间的一作剧。

Nordsveen described the experience as being magical and like a fairy tale.

Nordsveen称此次经历“很神奇”且像“神话故事”一样。

Round these concepts whole societies, as well as stories, were organised.

所有社会，无一例外，都是围绕这些对立的概念构建而成的，各种的神话故事就更不用说了。

Man sometimes mythological stories feel a LOT like mad libs.

有时神话故事中的男人感觉很像疯狂的人。

This is a lesson that's also taught in many a myth.

这是一很多神话故事中都在传递的寓意。

Thor, the Norse god of the sky, thunder, and agriculture is best known today from his depiction as a superhero in graphic novels and movies, which draw on his role in tales from Norse mythology.

托尔是北欧的天空、雷电和农业之神，如今人们最熟悉的是他在漫画说和电影中的超级英雄形象，这些说和电影都借鉴了他在北欧神话故事中的角色。

According to a myth, a milkmaid forgot a pail of milk in one of the caves, and when she returned, the milk had turned hard.

在一则神话故事中，一挤奶女工把一桶牛奶忘在了山洞里，当她回来时，牛奶已经变硬了。

And so, when you watch a film like Herzog's Into the Inferno, it's not just a film about volcanoes, what you really get is a story about the mythologies humans have created around them.

因此，当你看一部像赫尔佐格的《进入地狱》这样的电影时，它不仅仅是一部关于火山的电影，你真正得到的是关于人类围绕它所创造的神话故事。

He didn't find anyone for a long time. But, as monsters became the stuff of fairy tales, he found he could interact with unsuspecting humans as if he were one of them. He began practicing medicine.

在很长一段时间里，他没有找到任何人。但是，随着怪物逐渐成为神话故事的内容，他发现自己可以毫无芥蒂地和没有戒心的人类相处，就好像他是他们之间的一员一样。他开始实践自己的医术。

Ray liked well enough to play with the boys at school; yet he liked better to be alone under the shade of some tree, reading a fairy tale or dreaming daydreams.

芮很喜欢和其他的男孩子在学校里玩耍；但是，他更喜欢独自坐在树下的阴凉处，看神话故事或者做白日梦。

Not to put too fine a point on it, I consider that I am the only man outside mythology to have found the crock of gold at the rainbow's end.

直白来说，我大概是除了神话故事之外，唯一一有幸找到彩虹尽头那罐黄金的幸运儿。

It was only half a dozen little fairy tales, but Jo had worked over them patiently, putting her whole heart into her work, hoping to make something good enough to print.

这本书只是五六篇短短的神话故事，但是乔曾为它辛勤工作，把整心思都用了进去，一心希望写得有出版水平。

This sequel to the 2019 hit Ne Zha, with inspirations derived from Chinese mythological tales, has already drawn over 200 million cinema-goers, the highest number in the country's film history.

作为2019年爆款电影《哪吒》的续集，这部取材于中国神话故事的影片已吸引超过2亿观影人次，创下中国电影史上的最高录。

Campbell synthesized the ideas of psychoanalysts, comparative mythologists, and literary and cultural critics to create his own theory of a single " mono-myth" that underlies all mythical stories.

坎贝尔综合了精神分析学家、比较神话学家以及文学和文化批评家的思想，创造了他自己的“单一神话”理论，认为这一理论是所有神话故事的基础。