Legends cover a broad spectrum of subjects and are used to help people understand various events. Starting with the supernatural legends that have been around for thousands of years to the conspiracy theories that seem to be born every day, legends are constantly growing and changing. A legend about the supernatural, for example, gives comfort to a person because it explains an unexplainable occurrence. While race and gender legends often serve as a warning to a particular group to cease how they have been acting and revert to the way it was. These legends are often used to scare people into acting a certain way, such as the “Hook” legend was used to stop teenagers from having sex by scaring them with a murderer lurking outside of the car