myths

According to the Colour Literacy Project, from which Salon learned to bust all of the above color myths, what we learn about color is mostly wrong.

A University of South Florida professor found the first-ever physical evidence of hallucinogens in an Egyptian mug, validating written records and centuries-old myths of ancient Egyptian rituals and practices.

The justice secretary Angela Constance previously said there was a "compelling body of evidence" that jurors were being influenced in their verdicts by these myths.

Throughout the 1800s and early 1900s, racial scientists labored to transform the myths of the age of slavery and the more modern racist fictions of the Ku Klux Klan into scientifically verified facts.

"There's definitely a resurgence among young people having an interest in folklore," says BAFTA-winning actor and writer Charlie Cooper, who is the host of a new BBC series exploring myths across the UK.