According to popular legend, his raiders gained access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion, letting a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight.

A popular legend at the time was of the Amazons, a tribe of fierce female warriors who socialized with men only for procreation and even removed one breast to become better warriors ( the idea being that the right breast would interfere with the operation of a bow and arrow ).

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

A popular legend attributes the tax-free status to the heroic acts of the inhabitants during a maritime tragedy in 1794, often referred to as " Wreck of the Ten Sails ".

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.

A popular graffito of the 1970s was the legend " Dick Nixon Before He Dicks You ", reflecting the hostility of the youth culture to that U. S. president.

In the Middle Ages, Glagolitsa was also known as " St. Jerome's script " due to popular mediaeval legend ( created by Croatian scribes in 13th century ) ascribing its invention to St Jerome ( 342-429 ).

Conventional wisdom holds that Hamlet is too obviously connected to legend, and the name Hamnet was quite popular at the time.

The phrase and the legend are quoted very often in fiction and popular culture in the United States.

Thus, freethinkers strive to build their opinions on the basis of facts, scientific inquiry, and logical principles, independent of any logical fallacies or intellectually limiting effects of authority, confirmation bias, cognitive bias, conventional wisdom, popular culture, prejudice, sectarianism, tradition, urban legend, and all other dogmas.

According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned.

By extension, in popular legend the palace is associated with the myth of the Minotaur.

The second most popular theory about the origin and sense of Mieszko's name can be traced to the very old legend, firstly described by Gallus Anonymus, according to which Mesco ( the Latinized form used by the earliest sources ) was blind during his first seven years of life.

The popular legend that he attempted the ancient methods of flame gazing, water gazing or both simultaneously is based on a naive reading of his first two verses, which merely liken his efforts to those of the Delphic and Branchidic oracles.

The internal styles are also known as Wǔdāngquán, named for their association with the Taoist monasteries of Wudangshan range, Hubei Province in Chinese popular legend.

Internal styles have been associated in legend and in much popular fiction with the Taoist monasteries of Wudangshan in central China.

It is possible that Callixtus was martyred around 222, perhaps during a popular uprising, but the legend that he was thrown down a well has no historical foundation, though the church does contain an ancient well.

A popular legend claims that the Rule of St Benedict contains the following passage:

Another popular theory holds that the Thera eruption is the source of the legend of Atlantis.

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.

Though the legend lacks historical credibility, it became popular with medieval historians.

* According to a popular legend, Prince Madog of Gwynedd reaches North America in what is present-day Alabama.

While a popular legend persists about a reward of US $ 40, 000 for Tubman's capture, this is a manufactured figure.

The sport is also very popular on the eastern side of the Adriatic, especially in Slovenia ( where it is known as balinanje or colloquial playing boče or bale from Italian bocce or palle meaning balls ), Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina ( in Serbo-Croatian known under the name of boćanje or simply playing boće ( colloquial also bućanje or playing balote ), originating in Italian boccie ).

The traditional, classical or popular ( meaning of the people ) ballad has been seen as originating with the wandering minstrels of late medieval Europe.

Chinese cuisine is any of several styles originating from regions of China, some of which have become increasingly popular in other parts of the world – from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa.

Using a full blues band, he became a popular act in the South with his daily broadcasts on the ' King Biscuit Time ', originating live from Helena, Arkansas.

The screwball comedy is a principally American genre of comedy film that became popular during the Great Depression, originating in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1940s.

With the sliding technique originating from the cut off neck of a glass bottle, bottlenecks usually still have the same tubular shape and a length of one to three inches, and glass still remains a popular material.

Another popular dish originating in Tainan is " oily rice " ( 台南油飯 Tâi-lâm iû-pn ̄ g, Táinán yóufàn ), a rice dish containing savoury oils and shredded pork meat, mushrooms, and dried shrimp.

Penhold styles are popular among players originating from East Asian regions such as China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Traditionally, penhold players use only one side of the racket to hit the ball during normal play, and the side which is in contact with the last three fingers is generally not used.

MMORPGs, originating in the mid-to-late 1990s, become a popular PC trend and virtual online worlds become a reality as games such as RuneScape ( 2001 ), Final Fantasy XI ( 2002 ), Eve Online ( 2003 ), Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided ( 2003 ), World of Warcraft ( 2004 ), and Everquest II ( 2004 ), The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar ( 2007 ) and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning ( 2008 ) are released.

Llanera is Venezuelan popular music originating in the llanos plains, although a more upbeat and festive gaita version is heard western Venezuela ( particularly in Zulia State ).

Five-card stud is the earliest form of the card game stud poker, originating during the American Civil War, but is less commonly played today than many other more popular poker games.

The most popular type of red sausage is perhaps txistorra, a thin and long paprika sausage originating in Navarre.

A popular thread of conspiracy theory originating with Holy Blood, Holy Grail has it that the Templars used a fleet of 18 ships which had brought Jacques de Molay from Cyprus to La Rochelle to escape arrest in France.

Even far outside its range, the reindeer is well known due to the myth, probably originating in early 19th century America, in which Santa Claus's sleigh is pulled by flying reindeer, a popular element of Christmas.

In addition to el hada del diente ( Spanish language: the tooth fairy ), Hispanic culture also has a mouse. The Ratoncito Pérez ( or Ratón Pérez ) is a figure popular in Spanish and Hispanic American cultures, similar to the tooth fairy, originating in Madrid in 1894.

Tejano music or Tex-Mex music ( Texan-Mexican music ) is the name given to various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas.

One of the sports played at the club was football, which was becoming popular based on the game originating in English public schools.

The phrase " jumping the shark ", a term originating from a melodramatic Happy Days scene in which Fonzie jumps on water skis over an enclosure of sharks, has become part of popular culture.

In United States usage, a popular vote on a specific measure is referred to as a referendum only when originating with the legislature.

He is best known for playing the hapless Frank Spencer in the popular 1970s British sitcom, Some Mothers Do ' Ave ' Em ( which made him a household name ), as well as for originating the title role in The Phantom of the Opera.

* Tex-Mex music, another name for Tejano music, folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas

New Zealand pop is the term generally applied to pop originating in New Zealand or music most popular among mainstream New Zealand teenage audiences.

This fashion later became increasingly popular through sporting styles comprising modified sports bras without additional outer garments, sports bikinis, and cheerleading style fashions developing largely from the styles originating with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders in the early 1970s.

The myth of a Storm God fighting a Sea Serpent is itself a popular mythic trope potentially originating with the Proto-Indo-European religion and later transmitted into the religions of the Ancient Near East most likely initially through interaction with Hittite speaking peoples into Syria and the Fertile Crescent.