Just as forests and mountains are familiar landscapes of legend, so too are the plains, though contemporary memory has often reduced them to a tangle of asphalt roads, industrial farms and engineered fields. Here you will find legends of fogs that possess souls, peasants struggling against impossible odds, bandits attacking brave armed nuns along lonely roads, old inns where travellers mysteriously disappear, burned chapels, miraculous springs and dangerous hermitages that seem to emerge from nowhere and tempt the traveller inside. The modern plain also breeds contemporary legends: vanishing drivers, phantom hitchhikers and many others.