Myths+and+Legends+of+To+Kill+a+Mocking+Bird




 * Urban Myth:** Boo Radley will kill anyone who walks on his property.


 * Possible Origin:** One day Mrs. Radley ran out of the house screaming that Boo was trying to kill them all.


 * Fact:** No one knows if he really went crazy because he never comes outside and interacts.


 * Urban Myth**: It is a sin to kill a mocking bird.
 * Possible Origin**: There is no reason to kill a mockingbird, they don't mess up peoples' gardens or damage property; they just make music for all to hear.


 * Fact:** It is a sin to take any life, even an animal's.


 * Urban Myth:** No Crawford can mind his own business.


 * Possible Origin:** The Crawfords have been known to know everyone else's business for many past generations.


 * Fact:** Stephanie Crawford is a known gossip.


 * Urban Myth:** African Americans are socially inferior to white people.


 * Possible Origin:** Slavery had just ended and white people were still used to controlling blacks.


 * Fact:** God made all men equal.


 * Urban Myth:** Bufords walk a certain way.


 * Possible Origin:** A son or daughter of a Buford walked just like their parents.


 * Fact:** Genes may be carried down generations, but they eventually will be altered. So Bufords will walk differently after so many generations.


 * Urban Myth:** Mr. Raymod likes African Americans because he's drunk.


 * Possible Origin:** He lives among black folk, and is always seen in town drinking out of a bottle hidden in a paper bag.

Actually the bottle is just Coke.
 * Fact:** Mr. Rymond is not drunk and only acts like it so as to give the towns people a reason for him to like blacks.