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No. First of all, only verbs can have tense, and most of the words in a story would not be verbs.

Second, you can use the present tense to make statements about things that have a universal truth or permanent existence, and they might have a place in a legend.

For example, a legend might say that the fish of the stream and the birds of the air have a language that only the wise can perceive. That statement is in the present tense. (And of course it is make-believe.) And then the legend could go on to say (in the past tense) that when the hero of the story was a boy, a wise man taught him to know the speech of the animals.

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