According to these same legends, his wife was suddenly possessed by some unknown gods.

According to native oral legends Fijians were also descendants of a nomadic tribe from Tanganika ( Tanzania ).

According to Mark Kurlansky, " Smoked foods almost always carry with them legends about their having been created by accident — usually the peasant hung the food too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …".

According to the Swedish naturalist and author Bengt Sjögren ( 1980 ), present day beliefs in lake monsters such as the Loch Ness Monster are associated with the old legends of kelpies.

According to Lt. Paul Gratz's account from 1909, indigenous legends of the Congo River Basin in modern day Zambia spoke of a creature known by native people as the " Nsanga ", which was said to inhabit the Lake Bangweulu region.

According to legend, Samoa shares the common Polynesian ancestor of Tagaloa ; according to many legends, Samoa was Tagaloa's first creation.

According to other legends, the children of Lilith are called Lilin.

According to his legends, Vajk was baptized a Christian by Saint Adalbert of Prague.

According to various legends, the tusks are formed either by the trails of mucus from the weeping girl or her long braids.

According to some legends, having regained control of her son, Drahomíra set out to convert him to the old pagan religion.

According to other legends, she was a Christian herself ; however, very little is known about her rule.

According to one of the legends, Andrew reached the future location of Kiev and foretold the foundation of a great Christian city .< ref >

According to these legends, he founded a state known as Gija Joseon in Northwest Korea during the Gojoseon period of ancient Korean history.

According to their legends, the Mexica tribe place of origin was Aztlán.

According to Balt legends, the playing of a girl giantess named Neringa on the seashore formed the Curonian Spit (" neria, nerge, neringia " means land which is diving up and down like a swimmer ).

According to the Polish version of legends: three brothers Lech, Czech and Rus were exploring the wilderness to find a place to settle.

According to some legends Indract of Glastonbury was buried in Shepton.

According to later legends ( c. 400 BC ), on account of his inflexible integrity he was made one of the judges of the dead in the lower world, together with Aeacus and Minos.

According to other legends it contained in its prow a magical piece of timber from the sacred forest of Dodona, which could speak and render prophecies.

According to legends, when Sita's swaymvar was introduced Ravana also had gone and he came before Lord Rama but some of the officials and on Sita's instructions they told him that his sister was being kidnapped. On hearing this Ravana immediately departed from the swaymavar and arrived at his castle only to found that her sister was well and sound.

According to historical legends, the San Luis Rey Mission flocks were robbed by a small band of Indians in the late 18th century.

According to records and legends, Louis Depuy ( the owner of the Hotel De Paris ) was also a newspaper editor for the town.

According to some legends, he would have been the true and rightful heir to the throne of Camelot, after the reign of King Arthur.

According to one of several legends, the town was given its name by Colonel Samuel Chapman, whose family owned of land in Southern Maryland, including what would become the areas of La Plata and Port Tobacco.

According to local legends the name stems from confrontations between native Americans and early settlers during the 1850s and 60s.

According to this research, genetic markers commonly found in modern humans worldwide suggest that today many people carry a gene that evolved as protection against the brain diseases that can be spread by consuming human brain tissue.

According to Needham, though there is no way of answering the question of whether the crossbow first arose among the cultures neighboring ancient China before the rise of Chinese culture in their midst, or whether it spread outwards from China to all the environing peoples, the former seems the more probable hypothesis given linguistic evidence, which posits that the Chinese word for ' crossbow ' came from an Austroasiatic language.

According to lexicographer William Smith, " She was accused of too much familiarity with Orestes, prefect of Alexandria, and the charge spread among the clergy, who took up the notion that she interrupted the friendship of Orestes with their archbishop, Cyril.

According to tradition, bits of hay are spread beneath the tablecloth as a reminder that Christ was born in a manger.

According to music writer Piero Scaruffi, the disco phenomenon spread quickly because the " collective ecstasy " of disco was cathartic and regenerative and led to freedom of expression.

According to Françoise Hélène Pairault's study, historical and archaeological evidence point to the fact that both Diana of the Aventine and Diana Nemorensis were the product of the direct or indirect influence of the cult of Artemis spread by the Phoceans among the Greek towns of Campania Cuma and Capua, which in turn passed it over to the Etruscans and the Latins by the VI and V centuries BC.

According to distributists, property ownership is a fundamental right and the means of production should be spread as widely as possible among the general populace, rather than being centralized under the control of the state ( state socialism ) or by an elite of wealthy property owners ( laissez-faire capitalism ).

According to both sources, he sent Yamatotakeru to Izumo province and eastern provinces to conquer the area and spread his territory.

According to occultist Israel Regardie, the Golden Dawn had spread to the United States of America before 1900 and a Thoth-Hermes temple had been founded in Chicago.

According to sociologist James T. Richardson, some of the concepts of brainwashing have spread to other fields and are applied " with some success " in contexts unrelated to the earlier cult controversies, such as custody battles and child sexual abuse cases, " where one parent is accused of brainwashing the child to reject the other parent, and in child sex abuse cases where one parent is accused of brainwashing the child to make sex abuse accusations against the other parent ".

According to its followers this organisation aims to revive and spread the Pagan religion of the Guanche people.

According to Grove Music Online, " Western-derived pop styles, whether coexisting with or marginalizing distinctively local genres, have spread throughout the world and have come to constitute stylistic common denominators in global commercial music cultures ".

According to Moin, this migration was to escape from the spread of British power in India.

According to a broad definition of slavery used by Kevin Bales of Free the Slaves ( FTS ), an advocacy group linked with Anti-Slavery International, there were 27 million people in slavery in 1999, spread all over the world.

According to a 1977 interview, Grade requested 26 episodes, which McGoohan thought would spread the show too thin, but was able to come up with 17 episodes.

According to the Nagarakertagama, around the 13th century, Majapahit's vassal states spread throughout much of today's Indonesia, making it the largest empire ever to exist in Southeast Asia.

According to Igor Vinogradov, Nicholas and his Minister of Public Education Uvarov spread education through the Empire at all levels.

According to scholar Ervand Abrahamian, although there were several decades of prohibition of torture that spread from Europe to most parts of the world, by the 1980s, the taboo against torture was broken and torture " returned with a vengeance ," propelled in part by television and an opportunity to break political prisoners and broadcast the resulting public recantations of their political beliefs for " ideological warfare, political mobilization, and the need to win ' hearts and minds.

According to the Qur ' an, Holy book of I-salami ( which translated means " submission "), Chapter ( 5 ) sūrat l-māidah ( The Table spread with Food ), proclaims that virtue is acceptance to the will of God, acceptance of the ways of God, acceptance of divine grace, of forgiveness, mercy, gracious, true repentance, the redemption, acceptance of the ways of Peace, the acceptance of the way things are.

According to an article in The Times dated 10 April 2009 approximately 30, 000 spread bet accounts were opened last year, and that the largest study of gambling in the UK on behalf of the Gambling Commission found that serious problems developed in almost 15 % of spread betters compared to 1 % of other gambling.

According to Condit, there were about a hundred reporters camped out in front of his apartment during the morning of September 11, 2001, but they all left after news had spread about the terrorist attacks.

According to Eliz Sanasarian " Of all non-Muslim religious minorities the persecution of the Bahais has been the most widespread, systematic, and uninterrupted .… In contrast to other non-Muslim minorities, the Bahais have been spread throughout the country in villages, small towns, and various cities, fueling the paranoia of the prejudiced.

According to the Japanese dictionary Shogakukan Kokugo Daijiten, " Bushidō is defined as a unique philosophy ( ronri ) that spread through the warrior class from the Muromachi ( chusei ) period.

According to John Canemaker, in Paper Dreams: The Art and Artists of Disney Storyboards ( 1999, Hyperion Press ), the first storyboards at Disney evolved from comic-book like " story sketches " created in the 1920s to illustrate concepts for animated cartoon short subjects such as Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willie, and within a few years the idea spread to other studios.