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.

According to a popular West Indian belief, Dominica is the only New World territory that Columbus would still recognize.

According to some sources, genealogy is one of the most popular topics on the Internet.

According to the biographer Esther Forbes, the Guy Fawkes Day celebration in the pre-revolutionary American colonies was a very popular holiday.

According to a popular theory, Shakespeare's main source is believed to be an earlier play — now lost — known today as the Ur-Hamlet.

According to Lemley, it was only at this point that the term really began to be used in the United States ( which had not been a party to the Berne Convention ), and it did not enter popular usage until passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980.

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

According to a poll conducted in 1947, Robinson was the second most popular man in the country, behind Bing Crosby.

According to Voll, it was Muhammad Hayyat who taught Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab to reject the popular veneration of saints and their tombs.

According to the Christian Business Association, the New International Version has become the most popular selling English translation of the Bible, having sold more than 215 million copies worldwide.

According to tradition, the bitter taste of antimalarial quinine tonic led British colonials in India to mix it with gin, thus creating the gin and tonic cocktail, which is still popular today in many parts of the world, especially the UK, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

According to John Storm Roberts, R & B became the vehicle for the return of Cuban elements into mass popular music.

According to Bruce E. Wright, “ the Governing Junta of National Reconstruction agreed, under Sandinista leadership, that these principles had guided it in putting into practice a form of government that was characterized by those principles .” It is generally accepted that these following principles have evolved the “ ideology of Sandinismo .” Three of these ( excluding popular participation, which was presumably contained in Article 2 of the Constitution of Nicaragua ) were to ultimately be guaranteed by Article 5 of the Constitution of Nicaragua.

According to Time magazine, on 21 November 2003, Franks said that in the event of another terrorist attack, American constitutional liberties might be discarded by popular demand in favor of a military state.

According to Jay Bybee, those in favor of popular elections for senators felt that there were primarily two issues caused by the original provisions: legislative corruption and electoral deadlocks.

Edmond Hoyle, of " According to Hoyle " fame, wrote an early popular and definitive textbook, A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist.

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

According to popular legend Bolesław I notched his sword ( Szczerbiec ) hitting the Golden Gate of Kiev.

According to Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, the primary military leader in charge of the Manhattan Project, Mills was anxious to have a very determined man involved, and – though he knew that Rickover was " not too easy to get along with " and " not too popular " – in his judgment Rickover was the man who the Navy could depend on " no matter what opposition he might encounter, once he was convinced of the potentialities of the atomic submarine.

According to the editors of these popular science magazines, the publications were designed to serve as “ organs of science ,” in essence, a means of connecting the public to the scientific world.

According to historian Mark Stegmaier, " The Fugitive Slave Act, the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, the admission of California as a free state, and even the application of the formula of popular sovereignty to the territories were all less important than the least remembered component of the Compromise of 1850 -- the statute by which Texas relinquished its claims to much of New Mexico in return for federal assumption of the debts.

According to one version of a popular legend, an astrologer had advised King Ralambo ( 1575CE-1610CE ) to choose his successor by selecting a time when his sons were away from the capital to feign sickness and urge their return ; his kingdom would be given to the first son who returned home to him.

According to Morrow, in spite of the CTW Model's effectiveness in creating a popular show, commercial television " made only a limited effort to emulate CTW's methods ", and did not use a curriculum or evaluate what children learned from them.

According to fashion writer Guy Trebay of The New York Times, in 2007, the " android " look is popular, a vacant stare and thin body serving, according to some fashion industry conventions, to set off the couture.

According to inscriptions, there was a temple of Jupiter, a temple of Apollo Augustus and an altar to the goddess of horses Epona, who was popular in the Roman military and of Celtic origin.

According to a tradition preserved in Eastern Christian folklore, Golgotha was the summit of the cosmic mountain at the center of the world and the location where Adam had been both created and buried.

According to German and Danish folklore, the Erlkönig appears as an omen of death, much like the banshee in Irish mythology.

According to Radoš Ljušić, Karađorđe's ancestors most likely hailed from Vasojevići, but has said that there are no certain historical information on Karađorđe's ancestors or where they came from, all is from folklore.

According to folklore, Achong is said to have had Walter Robbins stumped off a surprise delivery that spun into the right-hander from outside the off stump.

According to the Nevis Department of Culture, the aim is to protect and encourage indigenous folklore, in order to make sure that the uniquely Caribbean culture can " reassert itself and flourish ".

According to Icelandic folklore, the horseshoe shaped canyon Ásbyrgi located in Jökulsárgljúfur National Park, northern Iceland was formed by Sleipnir's hoof.

According to the folklore of that time, for a samba musician to achieve success, he would have to pass the house of Tia Ciata and be approved on the rodas de samba.

* According to folklore, the Welsh prince Madoc sailes to North America and founds a colony.

According to Balkan folklore, when it rained too much, women would run into the fields and lift their skirts to scare the gods and end the rain.

According to Paul Devereux, the names of various creatures from Celtic folklore, including the Irish, " púca ," Welsh, " pwca " or " pwca ," could be from the same Celtic family as the term " pixies " ( in Cornwall, " Piskies "), however " piskie " could be related to the Swedish word " pyske " meaning " small fairy.

According to the 11th c. Lebor Gabála Érenn ( The Book of the Taking of Ireland ), the 14th c. Auraicept na n-Éces and other Irish folklore, the Irish originated in Scythia and were descendants of Fénius Farsaid, a Scythian prince who created the Ogham alphabet and who was one of the principal architects of the Gaelic language.

According to Chinese folklore, nunchaku are a variation of the two section staff.

According to Hollywood folklore, a screen test report on Astaire for RKO Radio Pictures, now lost along with the test, is reported to have read: " Can't sing.

According to Hebrew folklore, Noah sends a white raven to check conditions while on the ark.

According to folklore, a lychee tree that is not producing much fruit can be girdled, leading to more fruit production.

According to Welsh folklore, their growling is loudest when they are at a distance, and as they draw nearer, it grows softer and softer.

According to folklore, King's Cross is the site of Boudica's final battle and perhaps she is buried under one of the platforms.

According to folklore the cellar was built by a sea captain who missed the sea.

According to this line of thinking, representation of Dylan in Welsh literature and in folklore have been used to infer the attributes of his supposed divine ancient Celtic prototype.

According to Heine, pantheism had been repressed by Christianity and had survived in German folklore.

According to Klein, this fits perfectly in with the Swedish folklore that Charles ’ magical protection, ( in contemporary times, he was rumoured to be of such strong breed and character that he was bullet proof ) had been broken by a killer who shot him with the king ’ s own coat button.

According to area folklore, the travelers had been told they would know they were close to the ocean when they saw palm trees.

According to the State of Georgia and American Indian folklore, Native American braves and their maidens would meet under the oak.

According to folklore, a lost map from 809 made reference to a fiefdom " Bodelo ".

According to local folklore, " Manawa " means " long bow ," and was the name of a Native American killed in a duel near the lower river crossing.