Legion in popular culture


 * "My name is Legion" is a quotation from the Gospel according to Mark. In Chapter 5, we are told that Jesus and his disciples encounter a man possessed by a multitude of demons. On seeing Jesus approaching, the afflicted man

ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many (Mark 5:6-9).


 * My Name is Legion is a 1976 compilation of three stories by Roger Zelazny.


 * My Name is Legion is a 1999 crime novel by Sheila Martin Berry.


 * My Name is Legion is a 2004 novel by A. N. Wilson.


 * "My Name is Legion" is a song by Electric Hellfire Club from the album "Witness The Millennium". There is a line "My name is Legion: for I'm many".


 * Legion is the villain in Stephen King's story Storm of the Century


 * Legion is mentioned in the film The Exorcism of Emily Rose


 * "We are Myria LeJean" is used to introduce this character in Terry Pratchett's Theif of Time. She is a manifestation of an auditor, a being which will be destroyed if it shows any sign of individuality.  Myria is easily associated with myriad and LeJean with legion, alluding to this bible passage.

(see also: Legion (demon))