Abstract The article deals with the Protestant genre ‘Lügende’ (word combined from ‘Legende’ [legend] and ‘Lüge’ [lie]) as a disparagement of Roman Catholic legends in 16th century. investigation concentrates on paratextualisation elementary invective mode ‘Lügenden’. analytical focus titles, marginalia so called ‘reminders’ (‘Erinnerungen’) shows correlation between generic term resp. pattern ...