Probably (not me, I don't have downvote bits) because it turns out there's a lot of "game of telephone"/"folk etymology" about this legend which apparently star

Probably (not me, I don't have downvote bits) because it turns out there's a lot of "game of telephone"/"folk etymology" about this legend which apparently started in the 1800s in english; it's not actually historical as you've expressed it.