Culture- Subjective/Fixed

I haven't pinpointed a clear culture yet but I'm hoping to do one on cultures that have legends. I enjoy writing ficitonal stories in my free time. The stories are fantasy based which is a main interest of mine. By looking into the cultures that created a legend, I'm learning more about the legend and the people who believe in it. I don't have any fixed positions beyond what I know of the specific legend, if I know anything at all. I enjoy keeping my mind open and seeing the good and bad. Subjective postions may be more. I didn't live in the culture or the area. I didn't grow up hearing the legends, so to me they may seem fake and dumb, while the people see them as true. If I were to go into the culture to study them, they would see me as a outsider and it would be hard for me to understand more about them and their legend. I don't look like them and have not given them a reason to trust me. Not being able to speak their language is another reason it would be hard. I probably won't have any interviews in my paper because most of it would be document based.