Black Legend

The Black Legend (in {{ll|Spanish}}, leyenda negra) is the excessive depiction of Spain and the Spaniards as bloodthirsty and cruel, greedy and fanatical. The term was coined by Julián Juderías in his 1914 book La leyenda negra y la verdad histórica (The black legend and the historical truth). This is contrasted with the White Legend (in Spanish, leyenda rosa, which means rosy legend) which promoted an idealized view of Spaniards. Each term tends to satisfy a certain prejudice.

See also

• Anti-Catholicism
• Bullfighting
• Colonial mentality
• Hispanic culture in the Philippines
• Lucrezia Borgia
• Philip II of Spain
• Population history of American indigenous peoples
• Slavery
• Spanish colonization of the Americas
• Spanish culture
• Spanish Empire
• Spanish Inquisition