Legends and Myths of Bustleburg

Most factual information available about Bustleburg is dubious at best. Here's even more suspect information about forces rumored to be at work in Bustleburg.



Evil Weed
Mayor Kakisto's apparent immortality has been ascribed to a deal with an alleged demon named Evil Weed who resides in the mayor's Museum of Stuffed Animals. Thus far, all sightings of Evil Weed have proven to have been a six-foot-tall plush doll representation of Bugs Bunny's nemesis, Gossamer.

Murkies
Area folklorists state "children are totally dropped out of the story" when fairy tales about the immensely polluted Yuckamud River contain appearances by naiads, kelpies, vodníci, or nixies as they "certainly couldn't survive in that mess." Thus, parents have had much more luck with effective "don't-you-dare-play-by-the-river" parables since Hollandton resident and exasperated mother, Serena Merrows, made up pollution monsters known as "murkies."

In recent years, The Discovery Channel has aired several shows featuring Murkologists who claim the presence of pollution monsters in the Yuckamud is "almost irrefutable." Additionally, Chief Clyde Cromple of the Bustleburg Police Department has held murkies responsible for dozens of unsolved disappearances.

Saint Valentine
The strength of relationships effected by the Sleeping Beauty Reverse (loudly disputed by the Pious Rivalist Church) is often ascribed to influence of a guardian angel or, more commonly, Saint Valentine, especially after the Children's Riot of 1969.

De-Commemoration of Saint Valentine and Subsequent Backlash
In 1969, Bustleburg students at Jacaranda Elementary School heard that Saint Valentine had been removed from the General Roman Calendar. Believing a very cool saint associated with candy had been "fired from sainthood," they initiated the Valentine Childrens' Riot, often called the Valentine's Day Tantrum by detractors, even though the event took place over summer vacation.

As a result of the riot, the apparently amused congregation of All Faiths Church changed the church's name to Valentine All Faiths'. Though the history of the Reverse is several decades older, numerous non-Burnsvale locals believe the charm has worked "a whole lot better since Saint Valentine found out Bustleburg had his back."