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* The legend of Alexander " Sawney " Bean has been chronicled in various media, including such print sources as Historical and Traditional Tales Connected with the South of Scotland by John Nicholson, 1843 ; The Legend of Sawney Bean, by Ronald Holmes, London, 1975 ; The Flesh Eaters, by L. A. Morse, Warner Books, 1979 ; and Cannibalism: The Last Taboo, by Brian Marriner London ; Arrow, 1992
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According to legend preserved in the Book of Arda Viraf, a 3rd or 4th century work, a written version of the religious texts had existed in the palace library of the Achaemenid kings ( 559 – 330 BC ), but which was then supposedly ( Arda Viraf 1. 4-7 and Denkard 3. 420 ) lost in a fire caused by the troops of Alexander.
* The song Faerie Queen by Heather Alexander seems to draw upon this legend.
A legend tells of the 15th-century " Earl Beardie ", who has been identified with both Alexander Lyon, 2nd Lord Glamis ( died 1486 ), and with Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford ( died 1453 ).
Another legend tells of " Earl Beardie ", who has been identified with both Alexander Lyon, 2nd Lord Glamis, and Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford.
A popular Greek legend turns Alexander the Great's sister, Thessalonike, into a mermaid after she died.
The legend of Gordium, widely disseminated by the publicists of Alexander the Great said that he who could unravel it would be master of ' Asia ' which was equated at the time with Anatolia.
The Gordian Knot is a legend of Phrygian Gordium associated with Alexander the Great.
There were many sibyls in the ancient world, but this oracle prophesied Alexander the Great's divine parentage, according to legend.
Perhaps behind the legend lies the offering by a Scythian king of his daughter as a wife for Alexander, as the latter himself wrote in a letter to Antipater.
The folklorist Alexander Hagerty Krappe ( 1894 – 1947 ) discusses the Balor legend in his book Balor With the Evil Eye: Studies in Celtic and French Literature ( 1927 ).
While Swedish, German, Finnish, Baltic and other sources have no information on the battle at all, a 16th century Russian legend tells that the Swedish " king " was wounded in the face while dueling against Prince Alexander Nevsky himself.
According to this legend, romanticised by Alexander Pushkin in his celebrated ballad " The Song of the Wise Oleg ," it was prophesied by the pagan priests that Oleg would take death from his stallion.
Gargy-tuyduk ( Karghy tuiduk ) this is a long reed flute whose origin, according to legend, is connected with Alexander of Macedonia, and a similar instrument existed in ancient Egypt.
" Philip's speech strikes the only false note in the anecdote, according to AR Anderson, who noted his words as the embryo of the legend fully developed in the History of Alexander the Great I. 15, 17.
The legend of Bucephalus grew in association with that of Alexander, beginning with the fiction that they were born simultaneously: some of the later versions of the Alexander Romance also synchronized the hour of their death.
Alexander the Great encouraged the myth makers in his retinue to spread the legend of his " secret " Olympian paternity.
Gargy-tuyduk this is a long reed flute whose origin, according to legend, is connected with Alexander of Macedonia, and a similar instrument existed in ancient Egypt.
Nuristan was once thought to have been a region through which Alexander the Great passed with a detachment of his army ; thus the folk legend that the Nuristani people are direct descendants of Alexander ( or " his generals ").
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According to legend, the Hairy Tree was planted by Sawney Bean's eldest daughter in the town's Dalrymple Street.
While historians tend to believe that Sawney Bean never existed, his story has passed into legend and is part of the Edinburgh tourism industry.
The Sawney Beane legend closely resembles the story of Christie-Cleek, which is attested much earlier — in the early 15th century.
The legend of Sawney Bean first appeared in the British chapbooks ( rumour magazines of the day ), which today leads many to argue that the story was a political propaganda tool to denigrate the Scots after the Jacobite Rebellions.
* Jack Ketchum's novel Off Season is an update of the Sawney Bean legend, with the cannibalistic clan headquartered in a sea cave on the Maine coast.
* In 2003 Christian Viel directed Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain ( aka Samhain ), a soft-core version of the Sawney legend set in modern-day Ireland.
* There is a boat ride set in the caves inhabited by the Sawney Bean family in the Edinburgh Dungeon as well as a short show presenting the legend.
* The Sawney Beane legend, from post to soc. culture. celtic
legend and Bean
According to legend, Judge Roy Bean held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande in a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas.
Bean was instrumental in the establishment of the Australian War Memorial, and of the creation and popularisation of the ANZAC legend.
* Forbidden Novel based in part on the legend of Sawny Bean
While Bean far exceeds his counterpart in terms of notoriety, the Christie legend does appear to be the older of the two.
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Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.
Whether historically a fact or not, the legend has a certain symbolic value.
Later research has shown this part of the legend of the Re Galantuomo to be false.
The idea has also some backing in German legend, for example the Gesta Treverorum ( a 12th century German medieval chronicle ) makes Trebeta son of Ninus the founder of Trier.
The traditional legend has it that Byzas from Megara ( a town near Athens ), founded Byzantium in 657 BC, when he sailed northeast across the Aegean Sea.
They revelled in the legend that he was taken by Timur to Samarkand, and embellished it with a cast of characters to create an oriental fantasy that has maintained its appeal.
Manduessedum ( Mancetter ), near the modern town of Atherstone in Warwickshire, has also been suggested, as has ' The Rampart ' near Messing in Essex, according to legend.
Camelot has become a permanent fixture in interpretations of the Arthurian legend.
In German legend, dragon blood has the power to render invincible skin or armor bathed in it, as is the case with Siegfried's skin or Ortnit's armor.
" And thus was born a legend which has never entirely perished.
Although he has become something of a political legend, Donald would have abhorred any attempt to turn him into some kind of secular saint.
Apocryphal legend has it that in 1961, either Jack Liebowitz or Irwin Donenfeld of DC Comics ( then known as National Periodical Publications )
Although mythical elements are not so prominent in Exodus as in Genesis, the echoes of ancient legends are crucial to understanding the book's origins and purpose: for example, the story of the infant Moses's salvation from the Nile has its basis in an earlier legend of king Sargon, while the story of the parting of the Red Sea trades on Mesopotamian creation mythology.
One legend has said that during the conflict, El Cid killed an Aragonese knight in single combat, thereby receiving the honorific title Campeador.
This legend also has many other flaws ( it claims that Jingū was flown into the middle of the promised land and then conquered into Japan ) which have largely discredited the story among historians.
An urban legend has it that the phrase refers to an old English law under which a man could legally beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb ( though no such law ever existed ).
There has been much uncertainty over Rasputin's life and influence as accounts of his life have often been based on dubious memoirs, hearsay and legend.
The legend has it that while he was there, a monkey brought him honey to eat.
A 17th-century legend has it that Hedwig, while on a pilgrimage to Rome, stopped at Bad Zell in Austria, where she had healing waters spring up at a source which today still bears her name.
This, however, has not prevented Scott from making an important contribution to the noble-hero strand of the legend, too, because some subsequent motion picture treatments of the Robin Hood's adventures give Robin traits that are characteristic of Ivanhoe as well.
Urban legend has it that the film was pulled from circulation due to the similarity of its plot to the death of President Kennedy the following year, but Frankenheimer states in the Champlin book that it was pulled because of a legal battle between producer Sinatra and the studio over Sinatra's share of the profits.
A spurious legend has it that the invention of the game saved an ancient city in time of war, and its widespread popularity helped raise funds to build the Great Wall of China.
The historical basis for the King Arthur legend has long been debated by scholars.
In recent years the portrayal of Arthur as a real hero of the 5th century has also made its way into film versions of the Arthurian legend, most notably the TV series Arthur of the Britons
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