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A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions, believed or perceived, both by teller or listeners, to have taken place in human history. Narratives in this genre may demonstrate human values, and possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. Legend, for its active and passive participants may include miracles. Legends may be transformed over time to keep them fresh and vital.
Many legends operate within the realm of uncertainty, never being entirely believed by the participants, but also never being resolutely doubted.[1] Legends are sometimes distinguished from myths in that they concern human beings as the main characters rather than gods, and sometimes in that they have some sort of historical basis whereas myths generally do not.[2][3] The Brothers Grimm defined legend as «folktale historically grounded».[4] A by-product of the «concern with human beings» is the long list of legendary creatures, leaving no «resolute doubt» that legends are «historically grounded.»
A modern folklorist’s professional definition of legend was proposed by Timothy R. Tangherlini in 1990:[5]
Legend, typically, is a short (mono-) episodic, traditional, highly ecotypified[6] historicized narrative performed in a conversational mode, reflecting on a psychological level a symbolic representation of folk belief and collective experiences and serving as a reaffirmation of commonly held values of the group to whose tradition it belongs.
Etymology and origin[edit]
Legend is a loanword from Old French that entered English usage circa 1340. The Old French noun legende derives from the Medieval Latin legenda.[7] In its early English-language usage, the word indicated a narrative of an event. The word legendary was originally a noun (introduced in the 1510s) meaning a collection or corpus of legends.[8][9] This word changed to legendry, and legendary became the adjectival form.[8]
By 1613, English-speaking Protestants began to use the word when they wished to imply that an event (especially the story of any saint not acknowledged in John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments) was fictitious. Thus, legend gained its modern connotations of «undocumented» and «spurious», which distinguish it from the meaning of chronicle.[10]
In 1866, Jacob Grimm described the fairy tale as «poetic, legend historic.»[11] Early scholars such as Karl Wehrhan [de][12] Friedrich Ranke[13] and Will Erich Peuckert[14] followed Grimm’s example in focussing solely on the literary narrative, an approach that was enriched particularly after the 1960s,[15] by addressing questions of performance and the anthropological and psychological insights provided in considering legends’ social context. Questions of categorising legends, in hopes of compiling a content-based series of categories on the line of the Aarne–Thompson folktale index, provoked a search for a broader new synthesis.
In an early attempt at defining some basic questions operative in examining folk tales, Friedrich Ranke [de] in 1925[16] characterised the folk legend as «a popular narrative with an objectively untrue imaginary content», a dismissive position that was subsequently largely abandoned.[17]
Compared to the highly structured folktale, legend is comparatively amorphous, Helmut de Boor noted in 1928.[18] The narrative content of legend is in realistic mode, rather than the wry irony of folktale;[19] Wilhelm Heiske[20] remarked on the similarity of motifs in legend and folktale and concluded that, in spite of its realistic mode, legend is not more historical than folktale.
In Einleitung in der Geschichtswissenschaft (1928), Ernst Bernheim asserted that a legend is simply a longstanding rumour.[21] Gordon Allport credited the staying-power of some rumours to the persistent cultural state-of-mind that they embody and capsulise;[22] thus «Urban legends» are a feature of rumour.[23] When Willian Hugh Jansen suggested that legends that disappear quickly were «short-term legends» and the persistent ones be termed «long-term legends», the distinction between legend and rumour was effectively obliterated, Tangherlini concluded.[24]
Christian legenda[edit]
In a narrow Christian sense, legenda («things to be read [on a certain day, in church]») were hagiographical accounts, often collected in a legendary. Because saints’ lives are often included in many miracle stories, legend, in a wider sense, came to refer to any story that is set in a historical context, but that contains supernatural, divine or fantastic elements.[25]
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Giants Mata and Grifone, celebrated in the streets of Messina, Italy, the second week of August, according to a legend are founders of the Sicilian city.
Hippolyte Delehaye distinguished legend from myth: «The legend, on the other hand, has, of necessity, some historical or topographical connection. It refers imaginary events to some real personage, or it localizes romantic stories in some definite spot.»[26]
From the moment a legend is retold as fiction, its authentic legendary qualities begin to fade and recede: in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving transformed a local Hudson River Valley legend into a literary anecdote with «Gothic» overtones, which actually tended to diminish its character as genuine legend.[27]
Stories that exceed the boundaries of «realism» are called «fables». For example, the talking animal formula of Aesop identifies his brief stories as fables, not legends. The parable of the Prodigal Son would be a legend if it were told as having actually happened to a specific son of a historical father. If it included a donkey that gave sage advice to the Prodigal Son it would be a fable.[citation needed]
Legend may be transmitted orally, passed on person-to-person, or, in the original sense, through written text. Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea or «The Golden Legend» comprises a series of vitae or instructive biographical narratives, tied to the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. They are presented as lives of the saints, but the profusion of miraculous happenings and above all their uncritical context are characteristics of hagiography. The Legenda was intended to inspire extemporized homilies and sermons appropriate to the saint of the day.[28]
Urban legend[edit]
The tale of the White Lady who haunts Union Cemetery is a variant of the Vanishing hitchhiker legend.
Urban legends are a modern genre of folklore that is rooted in local popular culture, usually comprising fictional stories that are often presented as true, with macabre or humorous elements. These legends can be used for entertainment purposes, as well as semi-serious explanations for seemingly-mysterious events, such as disappearances and strange objects.
The term «urban legend,» as used by folklorists, has appeared in print since at least 1968.[29] Jan Harold Brunvand, professor of English at the University of Utah, introduced the term to the general public in a series of popular books published beginning in 1981. Brunvand used his collection of legends, The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings (1981) to make two points: first, that legends and folklore do not occur exclusively in so-called primitive or traditional societies, and second, that one could learn much about urban and modern culture by studying such tales.
See also[edit]
- The Matter of Britain, Arthurian legend
- Legendary saga
- Legendary creature
- Lists of legendary creatures
References[edit]
- ^ Georges, Robert; Owens, Michael (1995). Folkloristics. United States of America: Indiana University Press. p. 7. ISBN 0-253-32934-5.
- ^ Baldick, Chris (2015). Legend. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (4 ed.). Oxford University Press — Oxford Reference Online. ISBN 978-0-19-871544-3.
A story or group of stories handed down through popular oral tradition, usually consisting of an exaggerated or unreliable account of some actually or possibly historical person—often a saint, monarch, or popular hero. Legends are sometimes distinguished from myths in that they concern human beings rather than gods, and sometimes in that they have some sort of historical basis whereas myths do not; but these distinctions are difficult to maintain consistently. The term was originally applied to accounts of saints’ lives..
- ^ Bascom, William Russell (1965). The Forms of Folklore: Prose Narratives. University of California. pp. 4–5, 9.
Myths are often associated with theology and ritual. Their main characters are not usually human beings, but they often have human attributes; they are animals, deities, or culture heroes, whose actions are set in an earlier world, when the earth was different from what it is today, or in another world such as the sky or underworld….Legends are more often secular than sacred, and their principal characters are human. They tell of migrations, wars and victories, deeds of past heroes, chiefs, and kings, and succession in ruling dynasties.
- ^ Norbert Krapf, Beneath the Cherry Sapling: Legends from Franconia (New York: Fordham University Press) 1988, devotes his opening section to distinguishing the genre of legend from other narrative forms, such as fairy tale; he «reiterates the Grimms’ definition of legend as a folktale historically grounded», according to Hans Sebald’s review in German Studies Review 13.2 (May 1990), p 312.
- ^ Tangherlini, «‘It Happened Not Too Far from Here…’: A Survey of Legend Theory and Characterization» Western Folklore 49.4 (October 1990:371–390) p. 385.
- ^ That is to say, specifically located in place and time.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. «legend»
- ^ a b Harper, Douglas. «legendary». Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
- ^ «legendry». Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
- ^ Patrick Collinson. Elizabethans, «Truth and Legend: The Veracity of John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs» 2003:151–77, balances the authentic records and rhetorical presentation of Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, itself a mighty force of Protestant legend-making. Sherry L. Reames, The Legenda Aurea: a reexamination of its paradoxical history, 1985, examines the «Renaissance verdict» on the Legenda, and its wider influence in skeptical approaches to Catholic hagiography in general.
- ^ Das Märchen ist poetischer, die Sage, historischer, quoted at the commencement of Tangherlini’s survey of legend scholarship (Tangherlini 1990:371)
- ^ Wehrhan Die Sage (Leipzig) 1908.
- ^ Ranke, «Grundfragen der Volkssagen Forshung», in Leander Petzoldt (ed.), Vergleichende Sagenforschung 1971:1–20, noted by Tangherlini 1990.
- ^ Peuckert , Sagen (Munich: E Schmidt) 1965.
- ^ This was stimulated in part, Tangherlini suggests, by the 1962 congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research.
- ^ Ranke, «Grundfragen der Volkssagenforschung», Niederdeutsche Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 3 (1925, reprinted 1969)
- ^ Charles L. Perdue Jt., reviewing Linda Dégh and Andrew Vászony’s essay «The crack on the red goblet or truth and the modern legend» in Richard M. Dorson, ed. Folklore in the Modern World, (The Hague: Mouton 1978), in The Journal of American Folklore 93 No. 369 (July–September 1980:367), remarked on Ranke’s definition, criticized in the essay, as a «dead issue». A more recent examination of the balance between oral performance and literal truth at work in legends forms Gillian Bennett’s chapter «Legend: Performance and Truth» in Gillian Bennett and Paul Smith, eds. Contemporary Legend (Garland) 1996:17–40.
- ^ de Boor, «Märchenforschung», Zeitschrift für Deutschkunde 42 1928:563–81.
- ^ Lutz Röhrich, Märchen und Wirklichkeit: Eine volkskundliche Untersuchung (Wiesbaden: Steiner Verlag) 1956:9–26.
- ^ Heiske, «Das Märchen ist poetischer, die Sage, historischer: Versuch einer Kritik», Deutschunterricht14 1962:69–75..
- ^ Bernheim, Einleitung in der Geschichtswissenschaft(Berlin: de Gruyter) 1928.
- ^ Allport, The Psychology of Rumor (New York: Holt, Rinehart) 1947:164.
- ^ Bengt af Klintberg, «Folksägner i dag» Fataburen 1976:269–96.
- ^ William Hugh Jansen, «Legend: oral tradition in the modern experience», Folklore Today, A Festschrift for Richard M. Dorson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press) 1972:265–72, noted in Tangherlini 1990:375.
- ^ Literary or Profane Legends. Catholic Encyclopedia.
- ^ Hippolyte Delehaye, The Legends of the Saints: An Introduction to Hagiography (1907), Chapter I: Preliminary Definitions
- ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica (2006). «Fable». Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopedia Britannica. p. 652. ISBN 9781593392932.
- ^ Timothy R. Tangherlini, «‘It Happened Not Too Far from Here…’: A Survey of Legend Theory and Characterization» Western Folklore 49.4 (October 1990:371–390). A condensed survey with extensive bibliography.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed. 1989, entry for «urban legend,» citing R. M. Dorson in T. P. Coffin, Our Living Traditions, xiv. 166 (1968). See also William B. Edgerton, The Ghost in Search of Help for a Dying Man, Journal of the Folklore Institute, Vol. 5, No. 1. pp. 31, 38, 41 (1968).
What is the origin of the word legend?
Etymology and origin Legend is a loanword from Old French that entered English usage circa 1340. The Old French noun legende derives from the Medieval Latin legenda. In its early English-language usage, the word indicated a narrative of an event. This word changed to legendry, and legendary became the adjectival form.
What is the word legendary mean?
1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of legend or a legend legendary creatures of the sea. 2 : well-known, famous a legendary football player.
What is the Latin term of legend?
legend. More Latin words for legend. fabula noun. story, myth, play, fable, tale.
What kind of word is legendary?
legendary used as an adjective: Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends. Appearing (solely) in legends. Having the splendor of a legend; fabled. Having unimaginable greatness; excellent.
Does legendary mean old?
If you describe someone or something as legendary, you mean that they are very famous and that many stories are told about them. the legendary Jazz singer Adelaide Hall. A legendary person, place, or event is mentioned or described in an old legend.
Is legendarily a word?
adj. 1. Of, based on, or discussed in legend. 2.
Who is a legendary person?
The definition of legendary is someone or something that has become famous or well-known, usually as a result of a distinctive or unique characteristic or skill. A person who is the best pool player in a town is an example of someone who might be considered a legendary pool player. adjective.
Which word has almost the same meaning as legendary?
Some common synonyms of legendary are apocryphal, fabulous, fictitious, and mythical.
What is the opposite of legendary?
Antonyms of LEGENDARY infamous, historical, unimportant, substantiated, confirmed, attested, proven, bona fide, verified, unknown, real life, real world, validated, true, authenticated, established, factual, real, authentic.
What is bigger than a legend?
Mythic
Whats better then a legend?
That means they were distinctive, unmatched, superlative, epic, grand, magnificent, praiseworthy, notable, amazing, fantastic, outstanding, overpowering, breathtaking. None of these match legendary because it applies in a familiar way to many of us should we know the person in real life or from historical events.
Can cipher mean zero?
Cipher comes from the Arabic sifr, which means “nothing” or “zero.” The word came to Europe along with the Arabic numeral system. From its “zero” meaning, cipher can also be used for a person who has no influence or importance in the world.
Can a person be a cipher?
A cipher can also be a person, often a fictional character, who is a blank slate—and that’s how I used the word when talking with my husband. A cipher has so little personality—is such a nothing—that the readers or viewers can project their own ideas and values onto the character.
How do you find a cipher?
All substitution ciphers can be cracked by using the following tips:
- Scan through the cipher, looking for single-letter words.
- Count how many times each symbol appears in the puzzle.
- Pencil in your guesses over the ciphertext.
- Look for apostrophes.
- Look for repeating letter patterns.
How do you identify a vigenere cipher?
The first letter of the plaintext, G is paired with A, the first letter of the key. So use row G and column A of the Vigenère square, namely G. Similarly, for the second letter of the plaintext, the second letter of the key is used, the letter at row E and column Y is C.
Which cipher uses numbers?
Nihilist cipher
How do I decode Atbash cipher?
This is a simple cipher to decode. All you need to do is create a translation table with the letters of the alphabet written from A to Z across the top and reversed along the bottom. Find the letter in your cipher text on the bottom row and look above it to see it decrypted.
Who used the Atbash cipher?
Atbash was probably invented by the Essenes, a Jewish rebels. They have developed a variety of codes and ciphers that have been used to conceal the important names and titles to avoid prosecution. Knowledge of codes and ciphers were then transferred to the Gnostics, who handed them over to Qatar.
How do I decode affine cipher?
How to decrypt Affine cipher. Affine decryption requires to know the two keys A and B (the one from encryption) and the used alphabet. For each letter of the alphabet corresponds the value of its position in the alphabet. Example: The alphabet ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, starting at 0 gives A=0, B=1., Z=25.
What is reverse cipher?
Reverse Cipher uses a pattern of reversing the string of plain text to convert as cipher text. The process of encryption and decryption is same. To decrypt cipher text, the user simply needs to reverse the cipher text to get the plain text.
What is reverse alphabet?
What is letter reversal? Reversing letters means your child writes certain letters (or numbers ) backwards or upside down. This is sometimes referred to as mirror writing. It’s different from transposing letters, which means switching the order of letters.
How do you reverse text?
Reverse or mirror text
- Insert a text box in your document by clicking Insert > Text Box, and then type and format your text. For more details, see Add, copy, or delete a text box.
- Right-click the box and click Format Shape.
- In the Format Shape pane, click Effects.
- Under 3-D Rotation, in the X Rotation box, enter 180.
What is reverse alphabetical order?
Definition. In a reverse word dictionary, the entries are alphabetized by the last letter first, then next to last, and so on. In them, words with the same suffix appear together.
What is the longest word with all letters in alphabetical order?
Aegilops
What does a backwards Z mean?
zess
How do you arrange words in alphabetical order?
Sort a list alphabetically in Word
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- Set Sort by to Paragraphs and Text.
- Choose Ascending (A to Z) or Descending (Z to A).
- Select OK.
English word legend comes from Latin legere, and later Middle English (1100-1500) legende (Legend.)
Detailed word origin of legend
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| legere | Latin (lat) | |
| legendus | Latin (lat) | |
| legenda | Malayalam (mal) | |
| legende | Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) | Legend (story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events; in particular an account the life of a saint). |
| legende | Middle English (1100-1500) (enm) | Legend. |
| legend | English (eng) | (archaic, transitive) To tell or narrate; to recount. A fabricated backstory for a spy, with associated documents and records; a cover story.. A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.. A leading protagonist in a historical legend.. A person related to a legend or legends.. A person with legend-like qualities, such as extraordinary accomplishment.. A plausible story set in […] |
Words with the same origin as legend
1
a
: a story coming down from the past
especially
: one popularly regarded as historical although not verifiable
the legend of a lost continent
b
: a body of such stories
a place in the legend of the frontier
c
: a popular myth of recent origin
the legend of the Loch Ness monster
d
: a person or thing that inspires legends
e
: the subject of a legend
its violence was legend even in its own time—
William Broyles Jr.
2
a
: an inscription or title on an object (such as a coin)
The quarter bore the legend «In God We Trust».
b
: caption sense 2b
The legend identifies the various parts of the illustrated anatomy.
c
: an explanatory list of the symbols on a map or chart
Synonyms
Example Sentences
I don’t believe the legends I’ve heard about this forest.
the legend of a lost continent
He has become a baseball legend.
The gravestone bears the legend “Rest in Peace.”
Recent Examples on the Web
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—Jon Schwartz, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2023
Kevin Millar, seen here hawking ice cream in 2015, became a local legend.
—Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
Coach Wooden is a legend.
—Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
The story of how the panther came to be Cartier’s mascot is now jewelry legend.
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English legende, from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French legende, from Medieval Latin legenda, from Latin, feminine of legendus, gerundive of legere to gather, select, read; akin to Greek legein to gather, say, logos speech, word, reason
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Time Traveler
The first known use of legend was
in the 14th century
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Where does the word legend come from?
The term derives from the Latin legenda which means «things that must be read», «worthy to be read» and with this term, at one time, we wanted to indicate the story of the life of a saint and above all the story of his miracles.
How do you make a legend?
START your story with an unspecified time «A LONG TIME AGO …» or «A TIME FAR …» INTRODUCE the characters and circumstances that will change the initial situation. DESCRIBE how and why the transformation takes place that makes the ELEMENT you mentioned in the beginning become as it is now in reality.
When is a person a legend?
The word legend can also have a negative meaning, in which case this word indicates an invented story, not true. Or it can be used with a positive meaning to indicate something or someone mythical, in fact, legendary, known everywhere. Here are some examples: Luca is a legend with us.
What is the difference between myth and legend?
Leaving aside the practical difficulties of the distinction, the theoretical criterion of this can be in the origin of the story: it is a question of l. presupposes a nucleus of …
What does it mean to explain the legend?
What is the legend? … The legend presents real elements but transformed by the imagination to try to explain some characteristics of certain flowers or animals or unusual and curious aspects of the landscape or to explain the existence of certain popular traditions and therefore find and answer the reasons why.
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What explains the legend of the sunflower?
In the language of flowers and plants, the sunflower symbolizes sunshine, liveliness and joy, for this reason those who give it want to express a feeling of joy or want to pay homage to the chosen person, representing them as full of life.
What is the sixth grade legend?
Legends are short stories that arise when the popular imagination ‘plays’ with reality. … The so-called hagiographic legends are of this type, and are very important, about the life of prophets and saints: the word hagiography is of Greek origin and means «writing relating to the saints».
Why is myth a fantastic tale?
The term myth derives from the Greek mythos, that is word, speech, story. The myth is a fantastic narration covered with sacredness, which describes the origin of existing cultures, peoples, phenomena, realities and the world itself, and which also tells its current characteristics.
What does myth or legend mean?
Basically this is the difference between myth and legend. The myth is a narration of a religious nature, the legend is an ancient tale that is part of the tradition of the people.
What is the middle school myth?
Myth is a very ancient form of narrative tale. … The word myth derives from the Greek “mythos“, which means story. Therefore, the meaning of «myth» is precisely that of a tale, a narrative of origins.
What is a cycle of legends called?
This cycle is known as epos, often collected in epic-inspired literary works that trace the character and spiritual profile of those belonging to a specific culture.
Why were myths born?
The myth in antiquity
As a tradition that was to guarantee the fertility of the earth or the prosperity of kingdoms, myths became fundamental religious institutions. Their content was shared and considered important by all. the «melodrama», as in the story of Testore and his daughters.
What is meant by urban legend?
An urban or urban legend is an unusual and unlikely story, usually transmitted orally, which at some point in its diffusion gets widespread coverage in the media, thereby receiving some kind of credibility license.
What is primary school legend?
The word legend indicates any story that presents real elements but transformed by the imagination, handed down to celebrate facts or characters that are fundamental to the history of a people, or to explain some characteristic of the natural environment and to answer some whys.
How to write a legend about the chameleon?
The legend of the chameleon
Once upon a time there was a gray chameleon. One day he rained with the sun and the rainbow came out on a mountain. Right on that mountain, where the rainbow ended, was the chameleon. The animal climbed into it and absorbed the color.
What is the relationship between myth and epic?
The content of the epic are the myths, that is, events in which a people recognizes their roots, sometimes actually happened, but always transformed in order to enhance their past and to develop and express a feeling of belonging and recognition of their identity.
What are the most famous myths?
Travelers of the Underworld
- The journey of Orpheus.
- The fable of Cupid and Psyche.
- Adonis.
- Titone.
- The story of Pyramus and Thisbe.
- The Pelasgian myth.
- The Orphic myth.
- The Olympic myth.
What are the classic myths?
Myths were often sacred stories of a fantastic nature, which tell impossible stories which the ancients believed firmly.
How to make a story of a myth?
Myths tell a story directly, as if it were real facts.
…
Write in a mythological style.
- Use iconic symbols. …
- Use the same structure for multiple consecutive sentences. …
- Give the characters short, fitting epithets.
What is the myth for?
By virtue of their fundamentally religious character, myths had the function of conferring sacredness and beliefs, conceptions, institutions and models of behavior, so that they could build shared values.
What is the function of myth and historical narration?
naturalistic myths: whose fundamental purpose is to provide an explanation of natural phenomena; … historical myths: they have the function of passing on fundamental events for the history of a people whose protagonists are real or imaginary characters.
What is the difference between fairy tale and fable?
Someone will answer ‘none’ but, in reality, there is a substantial difference between the two prominent genres in childhood literature. The fairy tale refers to popular tradition, while the fairy tale is a literary genre in itself with a moral, that essence that is drawn from a story or a story.
What is myth and epic?
The epic narrates the mythos (myth), that is the story of a glorious past of wars and adventures and was the first form of narrative, also constituting a sort of encyclopedia of religious, political knowledge, etc., transmitted orally with an accompaniment musical by poets-singers.
What to do when the sunflower withers?
Another possibility for drooping sunflowers is that the plants need water. Wilted leaves are also an indicator of this. Sunflowers, in general, can withstand some drought. But they do best with deep, regular watering to encourage root growth.