Belief narratives are known to be a very complex category of folk prose which were for a long time researched as legends (Erzälung, Predanie). ?t the begining of the 19th century Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm defined them as Sagen opposed to Märchen. The Grimm Brothers considered the Sagen as more historical and Märchen more poetical. Their contemporaries and followers used these ideas but also developed them in different directions insisting on their various dimensions. Thus they examined the relationship between the legend and the belief (Fraser, Boas, Röhrich, Dégh) and accordingly, the attitude of the individual narrator and the community towards the narrative (Malinovski, Sirovatka, Bascom, Halpert). In addition to this, the question of historicity of legends was important and often raised (Milosevic-Djordjevic, Sokolova), as well as the problem of the narrator's position within the story (Sidow, Cistov) and the position of the collective and individual elements in it (Sidow). Temporal and spatial dimensions of legends were also analysed (Bascom, Cistov). Researchers focused on how developed narratives are (narrative and non-narrative forms), motive, types (Simonsuri, Greverus, Sirovatka, Sokolova) and on the form and structure of the tales (Schmith, Sidow, Gusev, Cistov, Jason, Sirovatka). They also analysed the characters and heroes in the legends. On the long journey of legend analyses, the researchers, on different levels, introduced new genres and subgenres (ordinary legend, urban legend, local legend, migratory legend, news, rumours…). This necessarily led to the question of genesis and transformations of this extremely complex and vital category of tales, of the so-called classical and contemporary forms (Rörich, Boskovic-Stulli), and not only at the level of poetics but at the level of their psychological, socio-psychological and social function and nature as well (Jung, Ranke, Lüthi, Röhrich). What we usually call a legend, an active and interesting category of folklore prose which was originally oral, gradually in time entered the sphere of literacy and the written word as well as the contemporary form of electronic communication. This raises the question of media through which legends are told and the question of legends in the media. All of this contributed to the broadening of the scope of this complex genre/ genres. Moreover, the question of the relationship between beliefs ("history") and legends, beliefs in legends etc. grounded by the Brothers Grimm have since been not only constant but also dominant (Cistov, Sokolova), as could be seen in the new tendencies to rename legends into belief narratives, which is a wider, less specified category of folklore prose, and a consequence of a new perspective on the object of research. ...