Black Legend

== English == === Alternative forms === black legend === Etymology === Calque of Spanish Leyenda Negra (literally “Black Legend”). === Proper noun === the Black Legend (historiography) The depiction of Spain and Spaniards (or, by extension, all Hispanics and their countries of origin) as bloodthirsty and cruel, greedy and fanatical, especially concerning the colonial period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. ==== Translations ==== === See also === White Legend