Huancavilca of culture is the legend of Guayas and Quiles, which gives its name to the city of Guayaquil.

The type of slide called a steel which gives the technique its name was probably originally made of steel, or the name may come from the legend that the first steel was a railroad track.

Another states that a 15th-century legend from Milan gives the invention to the nobleman falconer Ughetto Atellani, who loved Adalgisa, the daughter of a poor baker named Toni.

Man seems to have inhabited the island already in 5000 BC, though a local legend gives the eponymous name " Liparus " to the leader of a people coming from Campania.

Welsh legend supports that this happened, with stories such as Breuddwyd Macsen Wledig ( English: The Dream of Emperor Maximus ), where he not only marries a wondrous British woman ( thus making British descendants probable ), but also gives her father sovereignty over Britain ( thus formally transferring authority from Rome back to the Britons themselves ).

Tradition maintains that Braunschweig was created through the merger of two settlements, one founded by Brun, a Saxon count who died in 880, on one side of the river Oker – the legend gives the year 861 for the foundation – and the other the settlement of a legendary Count Dankward, after whom Dankwarderode Castle ( Dankward's clearing ), which was reconstructed in the 19th century, is named.

He gives a vivid and accurate description of the last colony of the European Beaver in Wales on the River Teifi, but spoils it by repeating the legend that beavers castrate themselves to avoid danger.

The medieval German legend gives rise to the Dietrich of the Renaissance era Heldenbücher.

Unlike many other portrayals of the legend of Sir Galahad, Tennyson has Sir Galahad speak in the first person, gives the reader his thoughts and feelings as he rides on his quest, rather than just the details of his battles, as in Malory.

It has also been suggested that the name might be related to Gaelic, which would presumably have referred to the bishop's Scottish origins, though the legend gives him as a native Englishman.

According to legend, Krampus accompanies Saint Nicholas during the Christmas season, warning and punishing bad children, in contrast to St. Nicholas, who gives gifts to good children.

Mindful of both frustrations, Randolph proceeds to tell Jesse the legend of Natsilane and gives him a carved orca pendant on a necklace to remind him of the power of his special connection to Willy.

The book Dungeon Master For Dummies chose the module as one of the ten best classic adventures, saying it is " perhaps our favorite D & D adventure of all time ", Ravenloft " takes the Dracula legend and gives it a D & D spin ", and praised the detailed yet concise plot and isometric maps.

This story gives rise to a local legend that the remains of a Spanish or Portuguese shipwreck known as the Stradbroke Island Galleon exist somewhere in the 18 Mile Swamp.

One day Ricko ( Simon Lyndon ), a local surfing legend, returns from an eleven-month odyssey and Jared gives him a ' welcome home ' party at the local surf club.

In the legend as told in the Wumenguan, the Buddha holds up a flower and no one in the assembly responds except for Arya Kashyapa who gives a broad smile and laughs a little.

Another folk legend narrated ( a plaque erected at the entrance to the lake by the Department of Ecclesiastical Affairs, Government of Sikkim gives some details of the legend ) is that long time back this place used to be a grazing ground, troubled by nettle ( the native original tribal population make use of the barks of nettle for multipurpose uses ).

In the first programme, soul legend Edwin Starr reveals how he is still recording at the age of 53 and gives a guided tour of his baronial castle in Warwickshire.

The legend of the tooth fairy is that of a fairy that gives a child money and / or gifts in exchange for a baby tooth that has fallen out.

A local legend has it that the ash tree which stands in the centre of the village and gives it its name also marks the exact centre of Yorkshire, and that anyone who spits at this tree will come to a bad end.

Walsh gives credit to Bill West, an electrical engineer, Nashville steel guitarist and first husband of country music legend Dottie West, for inventing the talk box for him in the May 2012 issue of Guitar World magazine.

Inspired by a legend that Virginia was killed in the shape of a white deer, Gaiman gives his version shapeshifting powers.

" Herodotus i. 110, Justin ( i. 4 ) gives both the legend and Herodotus ' rationalized version.

His arrival must have occurred during the " dark ages " that followed the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization, and his conflict with Gaia ( Mother Earth ) was represented by the legend of his slaying her daughter the serpent Python.

Helle, the daughter of Athamas, was drowned here in the legend of the Golden Fleece.

The Principia Discordia states that her parents may be as described in Greek legend, or that she may be the daughter of Void.

In one version of the legend of St. Wojciech it is written that Mieszko I had his daughter married to a Pomeranian prince, who previously voluntarily was washed with the holy water of the baptism in Poland.

In the Lancelot-Grail and later accounts, Merlin's eventual downfall came from his lusting after a huntress named Niviane ( or Nymue, Nimue, Niniane, Nyneue, or Viviane in some versions of the legend ), who was the daughter of the king of Northumberland.

She symbolizes regrowth when she helps the starving stranger ( see also Roman Charity, works of art based on the legend of a daughter as wet nurse to her dying father ).

In the first legend, Trapani stemmed from the sickle which fell from the hands of the goddess Demeter while she was seeking for her daughter Persephone, who had been kidnapped by Hades.

She was the daughter of Agenor, and on her disappearance from Earth the Phœnicians honoured her with a temple and told a sacred legend about her ; how that Zeus was enamoured of her for her beauty, and changing his form into that of a bull carried her off into Crete.

# Firstly ( 4. 7 ), the Scythians ' legend about themselves, which portrays the first Scythian king, Targitaus, as the child of the sky-god and of a daughter of the Dnieper.

George Coedès suggests the Cambodian myth is a basis for the legend of " Phra Daeng Nang Ai ", in which a woman who has lived many previous lives in the region is reincarnated as a daughter of Phraya Khom ( Thai for Cambodian ,) and causes the death of her companion in former lives who has been reincarnated as a prince of the Nagas.

In China, there is a legend that the discovery of the silkworm's silk was by an ancient empress Lei Zu, the wife of the Yellow Emperor and the daughter of XiLing-Shi.

In this account, Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, Rhadamanthys ' brother ; another Ariadne was the daughter of Minos ' grandson and namesake, who features in the Theseus legend, and was rescued by Dionysus.

In the legend of Enki and Ninhursag, Ninhursag bore a daughter to Enki called Ninsar (" Lady Greenery ").

According to a legend within the Greek mythology, the island's original name was " Letois ," after the goddess Artemis, daughter of Leto.

According to the legend, she stayed with the Macedonian king for 13 days and nights in the hope that the great warrior would father a daughter by her.

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.

According to Livy's account of the legend she was the daughter of Numitor, king of Alba Longa, and descended from Aeneas.

According to a miraculous legend ( miraculum ), a poor woman who was starving in prison was saved when her daughter gave her breast milk ( compare Roman Charity ).

Macha Mong Ruad (" red mane "), daughter of Áed Rúad, was, according to medieval legend and historical tradition, the only queen in the List of High Kings of Ireland.

In Welsh medieval legend, Ceridwen ( ), also spelled Cerridwen, was an enchantress, mother of Morfran and a beautiful daughter Creirwy.

In the legend of the Children of Lir, she was changed into a swan and cursed by her stepmother, Aoife, to wander the lakes and rivers of Ireland, with her brothers Fiachra, Conn and Aodh, for 900 years until saved by the marriage of Lairgren, son of Colman, son of Cobthach, and Deoch, daughter of Finghin, which union broke the curse.

Hildr is attested in the Prose Edda as Högni's daughter and Hedin's wife in the legend of Hedin and Högni.

According to legend, Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas saved John Smith from being executed by the Indians.