]] Paul Bunyan is a figure in American folklore, a myth lumberjack in tall tales, originating with an American newspaperman. Origin Lumberjack legends ]]Paul Bunyan is said to be a lumberjack of gargantuan size and titanic strength. In stories about him, it is said that he and his blue ox, Babe, were so large that their footsteps created Minnesota's ten thousand lakes including (Lake Bemidji), which resembles Paul's giant footprint). Babe measured 47 axe handles between his horns. He was found during the winter of the blue snow. Once, he helped Paul to straighten a river by freezing it with two blizzards that they captured in bags, then Paul hitched Babe up to the foot of the river and had him pull it straight. Like most myths, this explains a physical phenomenon. Bunyan's birth was strange, as are the births of many mythic heroes, as it took 5 storks to carry the infant (ordinarily, one stork could carry several

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