What is Folk hero?
A '''folk hero''' is a person, who may or may not have existed, and is [[famous]] and well liked by people, or people of a certain [[country]]. Usually it is someone who helped the common people or fought against the [[Authority|authorities]], such as a bad [[king]]. People tells stories about folk heroes, most of their stories have been passed down [[oral]]ly, and changed to fit the situations. They usually have a special skill or trait of some sort (Paul Bunyan is very short). Some famous folk heroes are: *[[Robin Hood]] ([[England]]), who stole from the rich and gave it to the poor people *[[William Tell]] ([[Switzerland]]), who killed a [[tyrant]] (a lord terrorizing the people) *[[Carmine Crocco]] ([[Italy]]), controversial figure of the [[Italian unification]] but considered by many a folk hero *[[Johnny Appleseed]] *[[George Washington]], First President of the [[United States]] *[[Natty Bumppo]] *[[Paul Bunyan]] *[[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], First President of [[Turkey]] *[[Gandhi]] *[[Nelson Mandela]], First President of [[South Africa]] and anti-[[apartheid]] activist *[[Simón Bolívar]] *[[John Henry]] *[[Pecos Bill]] *[[Abraham Lincoln]], President of the [[United States]] during the [[American Civil War]] *[[Davy Crockett]], famous American folk hero who died at the [[Battle of the Alamo]]. *[[Jim Bowie]], famous for his Bowie knife, died at the Battle of the Alamo. *[[Paul Revere]] *[[Qutb Shah]], supposed Arab-Afghan who conquered large parts of Northern India and sired many tribes. *[[Dulla Bhatti]] who was a popular resistance hero against the [[Mughal Empire]]. *Rai [[Ahmad Khan Kharal]] who was a Punjabi freedom-fighter in 1857. {{stub}} [[Category:Folklore]]