I'm playing The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past(ゼルダの伝説:神々のトライフォース)and this sentence came up (spoken by one of the 7 maidens):
ハイリアの民は、ふしぎな力を
あやつることが、できたと言います。
I think this means "It is said that the Hylian people could harness/manipulate a mysterious power.". Why did they use と言います
instead of と言われています
? I thought that's how you'd indicate a myth or some widely-believed story.