Church tradition developed outside of the canon of the New Testament describes the martyrdom of many saints, including the legend of the martyrdom of Barnabas.

Beside the developed legend of the mandylion or Image of Edessa, was the tale of the Veil of Veronica, whose very name signifies " true icon " or " true image ", the fear of a " false image " remaining strong.

A legend developed that since the Templars had their headquarters at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, they must have excavated in search of relics, found the Grail, and then proceeded to keep it in secret and guard it with their lives.

The urban legend that Coca-Cola developed the drink Fanta to sell in Nazi Germany without public backlash originated as the actual tale of German Max Keith, who invented the drink and ran Coca-Cola's operations in Germany during World War II.

However ancient sources contain several accounts of techniques that foreshadow the concepts of forensic science that is developed centuries later, such as the " Eureka " legend told of Archimedes ( 287 – 212 BC ).

In light of the above parallels, Walter Burkert interprets the story as a significant development in the history of Dionysiac cult: " Released from this gloomy background, the cheerful and liberating legend of the sixth century further developed the image of the dolphin-rider under the colors of the renewed cult of Dionysus .".

This legend developed from a misguided belief that the river appeared and disappeared over time ( which persisted until the 19th Century ) because of its subterranean tributary.

Very little historical information about Dark Age Welsh court tradition survives, but the Middle Welsh material came to be the nucleus of the Matter of Britain and Arthurian legend as they developed from the 13th century.

However, in the late 1990s, more permanent, year-round communities began being built, such as the neighborhood surrounding the golf course at Baywood Greens, and The Peninsula, which is being developed by golf legend Jack Nicklaus.

During the same era, nine-ball legend Luther Lassiter was born in Elizabeth City, and developed much of his skill at pool in the City Billiards pool hall.

At some point between 1850 and 1880, a local legend developed about the " Chalvey Stab Monkey " involving an organ grinder and a stabbed monkey ; the first person to get blind drunk on the anniversary of the monkey's funeral is declared " Mayor of Chalvey ".

These wars profoundly affected Australia's sense of nationhood and a proud military legend developed around the spirit of Australia's ANZAC troops, who came to symbolise the virtues of mateship, courage and endurance for the nation.

Originally developed as a legend to the Soil Map of the World, the classification was applied by United Nations sponsored projects.

" Despite not having voted against the bill, a legend called the Muhlenberg Legend developed in which he was responsible for prohibiting German as an official language of the United States.

The legend goes on to say that the Jews threw the pig's heart and the holy consecrated host into the river that ran through the city, and that in a few days a terrible epidemic developed among the pigs in the surrounding areas, many of which died.

" 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.

His legend survived the end of Antiquity ; a cycle of medieval romances developed around his legend.

Wace, the earliest known Jersey poet, developed the Arthurian legend and chronicled the Dukes of Normandy

St. Isidore of Seville drew together the accumulated anecdotes of St. Simon in De Vita et Morte ; the fully developed aura of legend is presented in the Legenda Aurea ( ca 1260 ).

As noted, it has been hypothesized that the changeling legend may have developed, or at least been used, to explain the peculiarities of children who did not develop normally, probably including all sorts of developmental delays and abnormalities.

In a display of logic that impresses Spock, T ' Pring explains that she " did not wish to be the consort of a legend ," and developed a mutual attraction with Stonn.

A legend developed suggesting that possession of a baby's caul would give its bearer good luck and protect that person from death by drowning.

Poniatowski's cult developed after his death-it was a Polish version of the Napoleon's legend.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

The title of this book revived the Ashes legend and it was after this that England v Australia series were customarily referred to as " The Ashes ".

After naval studies in England between 1871 and 1878, Togo's role as Chief Admiral of the Grand Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War made him a legend in Japanese military history, and earned him the nickname ' Nelson of the Orient ' in Britain.

In 1986, he moved to Oxford, England to do research for The Pendragon Cycle, a reinterpretation of the legend of King Arthur in a Celtic setting combined with elements of Atlantis.

Sherwood Forest is a Royal Forest in Nottinghamshire, England, that is famous through its historical association with the legend of Robin Hood.

A popular legend, which has been around since at least 1937, traces the origin of the 4 ft 8½ in gauge even further back than the coalfields of northern England, pointing to the evidence of rutted roads marked by chariot wheels dating from the Roman Empire.

The legend of the Ashes was established during the Australian tour of England in 1882.

This was the first time they had won in England since the match that started the Ashes legend six years earlier.

There is a legend that Henry I of England met an elderly monk at Waltham Abbey, who was in fact a very old Harold.

The legend inspired a variety of works, among them the works of Michael Maier ( 1568 – 1622 ) of Germany ; Robert Fludd ( 1574 – 1637 ) and Elias Ashmole ( 1617 – 1692 ) of England ; Teophilus Schweighardt Constantiens, Gotthardus Arthusius, Julius Sperber, Henricus Madathanus, Gabriel Naudé, Thomas Vaughan, and others.

The Rite's name is derived from the city of York, where, according to a Masonic legend, the first meetings of Masons in England took place, although only the lectures of the York Rite Sovereign College make reference to that legend.

:: According to legend, Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March famously plotted to murder Edward II of England in such a way as not to draw blame on themselves, sending a famous order in Latin which, depending on where the comma was inserted, could mean either " Do not be afraid to kill Edward ; it is good " or " Do not kill Edward ; it is good to fear ":

He suffered from delirium on his deathbed and, as he hallucinated, according to legend he offered Death the whole treasury of England in return for living a while longer.

This particular legend also features in the Mabinogion in the story of Lludd and Llefelys .< ref > The dragon is one of three plagues in the land, which " can Vil England nivr si agen.

Famous Ulverstonians include Norman Birkett, who represented Britain at the Nuremberg Trials ; Maude Green, the mother of Rock and Roll music legend, Bill Haley ; Norman Gifford, an England test cricketer ; Francis Arthur Jefferson, a soldier awarded with the Victoria Cross ; and comedian Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy fame.

The community, according to the legend, really wanted to call itself " Bath " after the famous spa in England.

A traditional local legend refers to Berkhamsted as the real capital of England ( if only for a few minutes ).

According to Hann's family legend, passed from Betty to Val's mother and then on to Val herself, Mitford had checked into the hospital after her return to England where she had given birth to Hitler's child, who was subsequently given up for adoption.

From the Round Top Mountain area of Burrillville comes a very well known New England legend of a witch named Bathsheba Sherman who, according to the legend, sacrificed her infant child as an offering to Satan, then hung herself in her barn.

There is a legend that he died in England from a fever and a sickness which came upon him after an encounter with a pack of wild black dogs.

Temple Newsam House from Morris's Country Seats ( 1880 ). Temple Newsam ( historically Temple Newsham, in legend Templestowe ) () is a Tudor-Jacobean house with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

According to legend, William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven, built Ashdown House in Berkshire, England, in honour of Elizabeth, although she died before the house was completed.

praecox ), which flowers both in December and in spring, were formerly highly valued in England, on account of the legend that the tree was originally the staff of Joseph of Arimathea.