A popular, but probably apocryphal, story is that once when an opponent laid a cigar on the table, he complained to the tournament arbiters, " He is threatening to smoke, and as an old player you must know that the threat is stronger than the execution.

A story, probably apocryphal but popular at the time, is that the appointment caused Montgomery to remark that " After having an easy war, things have now got much more difficult.

The Harrowing of Hell, derived from the apocryphal Acts of Pilate, was a popular part of the York and Wakefield cycles.

Scholar David Carlyon has cast doubt on the " daring political jester ", calling historical tales " apocryphal ", and concluding that " popular culture embraces a sentimental image of the clown ; writers reproduce that sentimentality in the jester, and academics in the Trickster ," but it " falters as analysis.

There are various apocryphal accounts of how the town was named, the most popular suggesting that a local gold digger exclaimed that the town was " fit for Queen Victoria ".

Although Neoplatonic philosophers, who quote apocryphal works of Orpheus, Zoroaster, Pythagoras and other figures, almost never cite Hermes Trismegistus, the tracts were still popular enough in the 5th century to be argued against by Augustine of Hippo in the City of God,

A popular and apocryphal story of how the town got its name in 1887 is one based on a misunderstanding.

A popular apocryphal story which surfaced in French Communist circles claimed that women from clothing and textile factories had staged a protest on 8 March 1857 in New York City.

An apocryphal quotation can be found among Spanish historians, where Marx would express a view of the Carlists as a revolutionary popular movement in defence of regional liberties.

" Like other apocryphal acts combining popular legend and religious propaganda, the work attempts to entertain and instruct.

A popular but apocryphal story relates that the unusual design of this building is due to a mix-up with the plans in Dublin which meant Dungannon got a station designed for the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan and they got a standard Irish barracks, complete with a traditional Irish fireplace.

According to a popular apocryphal account, a mad religious ascetic prophesied the fall of Ivan and thus motivated the deeply religious Tsar to spare the city.

A popular but apocryphal legend has it that the Austrians used the Gregorian calendar, the Russians were still using the Julian calendar.

A popular story, perhaps apocryphal, relates that during a debate with the Conservative candidate for president, Gaitán asked him how he made his living.

But it is possible to regard Jesus himself as a magician in at least one popular event in the apocryphal infancy gospels, in which he is portrayed as using sufflation in order simultaneously to heal his brother of a snakebite and kill the snake ;< ref >< cite > Gospel of Thomas ,</ cite > Greek text, Rescension A, cap.

It is popularly referred to as the Diamond Building or the Vagina Building ( from the locally popular but apocryphal story that, with its prominent vertical slit up the front, the building was designed to be a feminine counter to the phallicism of most skyscrapers ).

The legend was a popular motif in art during Greek and Roman antiquity and served as an antithetical cautionary tale.

The tale was composed by Irving while he was living in England, and was based on popular tales told by colonial Dutch settlers of New York's Hudson River valley.

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

The story of Lucretia was a popular moral tale in the later Middle Ages.

The historian Meir Shahar is unsure if the popular tale about wine and meat consumption originated after the released of films like Shaolin Temple.

Voltaire's popular novel Candide mocked Leibnizian optimism through the fictional tale of a naive youth.

Most of his reputation declined with that of Socialist Realism, but his children's tale character Buratino retains his strong legacy with the younger audience of Russia and across the former Soviet space, appearing as popular reading, a movie, and a variety of derivative forms.

This tale was especially popular in the Renaissance and can be found in many versions all over Europe.

The tale was very popular and appears in many vernacular languages of the era.

* The 1987 film Wall Street and its 2010 sequel exemplify many popular conceptions of Wall Street, being a tale of shady corporate dealings and insider trading.

She suspects that the tale started out as a popular myth, or intentional defamation presumably tailored by Emma of Normandy, the other wife of Cnut and rival to Ælfgifu.

The fairy tale itself became popular among the précieuses of upper-class France ( 1690 – 1710 ), and among the tales told in that time were the ones of La Fontaine and the Contes of Charles Perrault ( 1697 ), who fixed the forms of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.

The tale of the child Krishna stealing butter remains a popular children's story in India today.

The character of Faustus, likely based on a historical 16th century magician or charlatan, became the prototypical popular tale of a learned magician who succumbs to a pact with the devil.

Most scholars today regard this story as a literary tale inspired by the Romance stories that were popular at the courts by the time Heimskringla was written.

For the scene where Aaron tricks Titus into cutting off one of his hands, the primary source was probably an unnamed popular tale about a Moor's vengeance, published in various languages throughout the sixteenth century ( an English version entered into the Stationers ' Register in 1569 has not survived ).

Danish author Hans Christian Andersen wrote his popular fairy tale " The Little Mermaid " in 1836.

Huail's enmity with Arthur was apparently a popular subject: he is mentioned as an enemy of Arthur's in the Welsh prose tale Culhwch and Olwen, written around 1100.

The legend became more popular after it appeared in a 17th-century pamphlet of four leaves, Kurtze Beschreibung und Erzählung von einem Juden mit Namen Ahasverus ( Short description and tale of a Jew with the name Ahasuerus ).

* Childe Rowland is a fairy tale, the most popular version being by Joseph Jacobs in his English Folk and Fairy Tales, published in 1892.

The comment suggests it was not popular with storytellers, though this was more likely due to its position as a literary tale rather than a traditional one.

A popular local tale recounts that an early settler named Mike Kelly gave the community its first name after emerged from the trees and said, " This is truly a sunny dale.

The assertion that the popular fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was born in Alfeld is false.

A popular but incorrect tale among the local tourist guides is that the bigger island is in Canada, while the smaller one is in the USA, and the foot bridge between them is the shortest international bridge in the world.

Jack Zipes, in Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller, suggests that seeing is presented in the tale as the courage of one's convictions ; Zipes believe this is the reason the story is popular with children.