Challenge 8: Folk Lore

Each family has its own encyclopedia of anecdotes, legends, and "true tales." Parents use them to teach or warn, children use them to express a fantasy world, uncles and aunts use them to freak us out or crack us up at Christmas. For Challenge 8, share a family folk story. It could range from factual to I-didn't-know-that-was-a-lie-until-I-was-20, but it has to be family specific. It's more fun to peek in the windows that way.