The account, which explains how the snake crushes and devours tigers, is full of popular misconceptions, but was much read at the time, and so gave rise to the myth of the anaconda of Ceylon.

A popular myth is that Polish cavalry armed with lances charged German tanks during the September 1939 campaign.

While in popular usage the term " myth " is often thought to refer to false or fanciful stories, creation myths are by definition those stories which a culture accepts as both a true and foundational account of their human identity.

In popular myth, the word ' documentary ' was coined by Scottish documentarian John Grierson in his review of Robert Flaherty's film Moana ( 1926 ), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926, written by " The Moviegoer " ( a pen name for Grierson ).

For many years a popular myth has persisted that in the Japanese version of this film, Godzilla emerges as the winner.

In the 18th century, well after the term handfasting had passed out of usage, there arose a popular myth that it referred to a sort of " trial marriage.

A popular myth is that at the age of 12 Albéniz stowed away in a ship bound for Buenos Aires.

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

Many scholars in other fields use the term " myth " in somewhat different ways ; in a very broad sense, the word can refer to any traditional story or, in casual use, a popular misconception or imaginary entity.

Though there is a popular myth that one must be a 40 year old Jewish man, and learned in the Talmud before one is allowed to delve into Kabbalah, Chaim Vital says exactly the opposite in his introduction to Eitz Chaim.

* Prometheus Books, a publishing company for scientific, educational, and popular books, especially those relating to secular humanism or scientific skepticism, takes its name from the myth.

A popular myth is that QWERTY was designed to " slow down " typists though this is incorrect – it was designed to prevent jams while typing at speed, allowing typists to type faster.

The winners are awarded the William Webb Ellis Cup, named after William Webb Ellis, the Rugby School pupil who – according to a popular myth – invented rugby football by picking up the ball during a game.

In addition, this early Christian use of the term " myth " passed into popular usage.

In the book's introduction, Schwartz states that the word " myth ", as used in the book, " is not offered to mean something that is not true, as in the current popular usage ".

No language corresponding to the last sentence about " two stout monks " appears in the Rule, though it is a popular myth that it does, with several reputable publications ( and more than one church, and at least one Benedictine organization ) repeating and propagating the error.

Contrary to the popular myth, the libretto was approved by the Emperor, Joseph II, before any music was written by Mozart.

This myth was popular during the 1940s.

There is a popular myth in Gloucester that the famous children's rhyme, Humpty Dumpty, is about a battering ram used in the siege of Gloucester in 1643, during the English Civil War.

Henry of Huntingdon ( 12th century ) claimed that Harthacnut ordered for the dining tables of his court to be " laid four times a day with royal sumptuousness " which O ' Brien says is likely a popular myth.

She suspects that the tale started out as a popular myth, or intentional defamation presumably tailored by Emma of Normandy, the other wife of Cnut and rival to Ælfgifu.

Sky polarization was thought to be perceived by pigeons, which was assumed to be one of their aids in homing, but research indicates this is a popular myth.

Since the time of Edward I, popular myth suggested that the French planned to extinguish the English language, and as his grandfather had done, Edward III made the most of this scare.

The myth of Osiris was very important in ancient Egyptian religion and was popular among ordinary people.

Consitutional government, popular vote, trial by jury, public education, labor unions, cooperatives, communes, socialized ownership, world courts, and the veto power in world councils are but a few examples.

In short order, the general history became his most popular work and has remained, aside from his later Social history, the work most widely favored by the public.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

The recent experiments in the new poetry-and-jazz movement seen by some as part of the `` San Francisco Renaissance '' have been as popular as they are notorious.

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.

Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.

Lacking the respected and effective institutions that consensus helps provide, minority parties, such as the P.D.I. in 1957 and the progressive Istiqlal faction in 1958, clamor for elections when out of power, but are not at all certain they wish to be controlled by popular choice when in power.

Continuity exits, but like the neo-swing music developed from Lester Young, it is a continuity sustained by popular demand.

But actually these accounts reveal the supernatural powers that the masters were in fact supposed to possess, as well as the extreme degree of popular credulity: `` Hwang Pah ( O Baku ), one day going up Mount Tien Tai which was believed to have been inhabited by Arhats with supernatural powers, met with a monk whose eyes emitted strange light.

Three of the four persons present, all foreign students in Tokyo, had been playing a game of judging popular Japanese foods by the In and Out system, an equation in which Zen philosophy was used as the modifier.

He said " A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.

In comedy, several players are emerging in the image of the very popular Rouiched which is illustrated in several films such as Hassan Terro or Hassan Taxi, or actor Hadj Abderrahmane better known under the pseudonym of the Inspector Tahar in 1973 comedy The Holiday of The Inspector Tahar directed by Musa Haddad.

Gender and sexuality became popular topics, as did the relationship between history and anthropology, influenced by Marshall Sahlins ( again ), who drew on Lévi-Strauss and Fernand Braudel to examine the relationship between social structure and individual agency.

" Asteroids was so popular that video arcade operators sometimes had to install larger boxes to hold the number of coins that were spent by players.

Until this point Austria and Switzerland had been the traditional and more popular destinations for winter sports, but by the end of the 20th century and into the early 21st century, France, Italy and the Tyrol began so see increases in winter visitors.

Agatha's imagination was creative, boundless, and forever popular as evidence by some 200 works in over 100 languages world-wide.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

The governor and the lieutenant governor are elected on the same ticket by popular vote for four-year terms.

Despite popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.

* Atomic Dog, a song that is popular world wide ; written and performed by Our Father Who Art of Funk ; " George Clinton " from Parliament and the Funkadelics

In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.

Using the once popular vortex theory of gravity, the possibility of matter with negative gravity was discussed by William Hicks in the 1880s.