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A legend recorded by folklorist Joseph Snowe from a place called Alte Burg in 1839 tells of a creature " in the shape of a short, thick-set being, neither boy nor man, but akin to the condition of both, garbed in a party-coloured loose surcoat, and wearing a high-crowned hat with a broad brim on his diminutive head.
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Doubleday's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.
A recorded legend from Trøndelag tells how a corpse lying on a beach became the object of a quarrel between the two types of draugr.
His time in America cemented Thomas ' legend, where he recorded to vinyl works such as A Child's Christmas in Wales.
His legend was recorded in Kojiki and Nihonshoki, but the accounts of him are different in these two sources.
The second is the Roman legend of Brutus, recorded in two separate Latin works.
A legend first recorded in the late 16th century and reported in William Camden's Britannia accounts for the town's place-name, as ' halig ' ( holy ) and ' fax ' ( face ), by stating that the first religious settlers of the district brought the ' face ' of John the Baptist with them.
Among the Nevisians recorded were chantey-singing fishermen in a session organised in a rum shop in Newcastle ; Santoy, the Calypsonian, performing calypsos by Nevisian ballader and local legend Charles Walters to guitar and cuatro ; and string bands, fife players and drummers from Gingerland, performing quadrilles.
The origins of the Olympics and Marathon running are shrouded by myth and legend, though the first recorded game took place in 776 BCE.
According to the legendarium recorded in the 12th-century Gesta Treverorum, the city was founded by an eponymous otherwise unrecorded Trebeta, an Assyrian prince, placing the city's founding legend centuries before and independently of ancient Rome: a medieval inscription on the facade of the Red House in Trier market,
In collaboration with Nora Guthrie, the Smithsonian exhibition draws from rarely seen objects, illustrations, film footage, and recorded performances to reveal a complex man who was at once poet, musician, protester, idealist, itinerant hobo, and folk legend.
It is unclear whether the legend was authentically Prussian ( i. e. recorded from Prussian mythology ) or was created by Grunau ( possibly inspired by Biblical Moses and Aaron ), though Lithuanian researchers tend to support in its authenticity.
Another legend, as recorded in Flores Historiarum is that Joseph is in fact the Wandering Jew, a man cursed by Jesus to walk the Earth until the Second Coming.
The founding legend of Gojoseon, which is recorded in the Samguk Yusa ( 1281 ) and other medieval Korean books, states that the country was established in 2333 BC by Dangun, said to be descended from heaven.
According to a legend recorded by Snorri Sturluson, in the Heimskringla, the late 9th-century Värmlandish chieftain Áki invited both the Norwegian king Harald Fairhair and the Swedish king Eric Eymundsson, but had the Norwegian king stay in the newly constructed and sumptuous one, because he was the youngest one of the kings and the one who had the greatest prospects.
Births are also recorded in such shrines, and the Greek legend of conception and birth in the tomb – as in the story of Danae-is based on the ancient belief that the dead know the future.
It is recorded in Wild Wales by George Borrow, who notes it as a well known legend ; by Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, which details versions of the same story from other cultures ; and by The Nuttall Encyclopaedia, under the Anglicised spellings " Gellert " and " Killhart ".
There are strong connections with the medieval Theophilus legend which was recorded in the 13th century.
A variant of the Wandering Jew legend is recorded in the Flores Historiarum by Roger of Wendover around the year 1228.
The legend of Huitzilopochtli is recorded in the Mexicayotl Chronicle.
The legend recorded by Manetho was that Menes, the first pharaoh to unite the Two Lands, established his capital on the banks of the Nile by diverting the river with dikes.
A legend recorded by Johannes Aventinus ( fl.
A legend recorded in the 12th century De Inventione Sanctœ Crucis Nostrœ (" The Discovery of our Holy Cross ") or " Waltham Chronicle " tells how in about 1016, at another estate of Tovi's at Montacute near Glastonbury, his blacksmith found a large black flint ( or marble ) crucifix buried at the top of a hill, after a dream.
In a legend recorded in the Midrash called Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer it is stated that the fish which swallowed Jonah narrowly avoided being eaten by the Leviathan, which eats one whale each day.
Another odd legend regarding this fish-eating bird of prey, derived from the writings of Albertus Magnus and recorded in Holinshed's Chronicles, was that it had one webbed foot and one taloned foot.
One legend recorded of Vortigern concerns his attempt to build a stronghold near Snowdon, called Dinas Emrys, only to have his building materials disappear each time he tries.
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If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.
Such identification comes for each group in each crisis by rewriting history into legend and developing appropriate national heroes.
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.
The Osmanli ruler Osman I was the first Turkish ruler who minted coins in his own name in 1320s, for it bears the legend " Minted by Osman son of Ertugul ".
The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.
A popular legend, originating from 12th century chronicles, tells how when he first fled to the Somerset Levels, Alfred was given shelter by a peasant woman who, unaware of his identity, left him to watch some cakes she had left cooking on the fire.
According to a version of the Ariadne legend noted by Plutarch, Theseus abandoned Ariadne at Amathousa, where she died giving birth to her child and was buried in a sacred tomb.
The novel Coalescent by Stephen Baxter depicts Aurelianus as a general to Artorius, Briton and basis for the legend of King Arthur.
Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.
Pausanias and Herodotus both recount the legend that the Achaeans were forced from these homelands by the Dorians, during the legendary Dorian invasion of the Peloponnese.
An Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.
The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.
Many poems and plays, and two operas ( Les Abencérages, by Luigi Cherubini, and L ' esule di Granata, by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) mention the legend, but the whole story is doubtful, because the best historians do not mention it.
Amr Diab is one of the top singers in the Arab world and considered a living legend by many of his fans in the Arab world.
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.
In his biography of rock legend Elton John, Philip Norman recounted that by his early teens, John ( then known as Reg Dwight ) was wearing glasses " not because he needed them, but in homage to Buddy Holly.
It is sometimes known by the metonym The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street or simply The Old Lady, a name taken from the legend of Sarah Whitehead, whose ghost is said to haunt the bank's garden.
In 1972, he formed Kurtalan Ekspres, a legend by itself, the band that would accompany him until his death.
* The legend of the Bermuda Triangle is a manufactured mystery, perpetuated by writers who either purposely or unknowingly made use of misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and sensationalism.
Dozmary Pool is identified by some people with the lake in which, according to Arthurian legend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake.
A popular legend in New Orleans concerns a popular lovers ' lane called Grunch Road which was said to be inhabited by " grunches ," creatures similar in appearance to the Chupacabra.
The legend associated with Chiron says that he was accidentally poisoned with an arrow shot by Hercules, and was subsequently placed in the heavens.
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