According to David Leeming, writing in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, the harrowing of hell is an example of the motif of the hero's descent to the underworld, which is common in many mythologies.

According to The Prisoner: The Official Companion to the Classic TV Series, however, the series was originally supposed to run longer, but was canceled, forcing McGoohan to write the final episode in only a few days.

According to Joyce Whalley in The International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, an illustrated book differs from a book with illustrations, in that " a good illustrated book is one where the pictures enhance or add depth to the text.

According to an interview with Gaiman in The Sandman Companion, the Corinthian takes his name from the mode of behavior ; specifically, " a Corinthian " was another term for a rake: a devil-may-care, ne ' er-do-well.

According to The Twilight Zone Companion this was one of the hardest episodes technically to put on film.

According to the Oxford Companion to Philosophy ( 1995 ), the term originated in Morris Raphael Cohen and Ernest Nagel's book Logic and Scientific Method ( 1934 ).

According to his notes in the LATOFSMD Companion, he enjoys telling this story because it captures Scrooge at his physical and mental peak.

According to the King's Quest Companion, she later disappeared from Kolyma soon after her brother kidnapped Alexander from Daventry.

According to the King's Quest Companion he withdrew from the other world along with his castle.

According to the King's Quest Companion he apparently has a wife, and it confirms that Graham had encountered the same Dwarf again when he traveled to Kolyma.

According to the King's Quest Companion, Abdul Alhazred wrote the Necronomicon, a dark tome feared throughout Daventry.

According to the " Readers ' Companion to U. S. Women's History ",

According to The New Ayn Rand Companion, Equality 7-2521 experiments with electricity to become a literal and figurative bringer of light, similar to Prometheus.

According to Pierre Larousse ( quoted in the Oxford Companion to Food ), the unfortunate Duke of Mirepoix was " an incompetent and mediocre individual.

According to The Oxford Companion to Food, okra-based gumbos are becoming less popular, as changing tastes have made the okra texture less palatable.

According to The Reader's Companion to American History, the poem was used as part of PUSH-Excel, a program designed to motivate black students.

According to The Oxford Companion of Food and Drink, " the name presumably comes from the Thousand Islands between the United States and Canada in the St. Lawrence River.

According to The Discworld Companion, there exist, in addition to humanoid trolls, troll dogs, troll horses and troll ducks ( although the ducks tend to sink a lot ).

* According to The Discworld Companion, it lasted exactly as long as it took for Sam Vimes to find out about it ( though in The Fifth Elephant it lasted only until Carrot Ironfoundersson found out about it, rather before Vimes did.

According to Michael Farr's Tintin: The Complete Companion, it is also the best-selling book in the Tintin series.

According to the book, Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game & How It Got That Way and The Monopoly Companion, Mr. Monopoly has a second nephew named Randy, although the Monopoly Companion mistakenly refers to Sandy as a boy.

According to the Oxford Names Companion, the name could possibly mean ‘ tree-trunk ( used as a footbridge ) of a man called Hydeca ’.

According to The Goon Show Companion, Bluebottle was originally known as Ernie Splutmuscle.

According to various ideas of the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul, of an individual, which carries with it and confers personal identity.

According to linguist Bruce Moore, " the major input of the various sounds that went into constructing the Australian accent was from south-east England.

According to Aldo Musacchio, a professor at Harvard Business School, it is a system in which governments, whether democratic or autocratic, exercise a widespread influence on the economy, through either direct ownership or various subsidies.

According to various sources, Chiang's first personal act of violence occurred around this time, when he either instigated or performed the assassination of a dissident member of the Revolutionary Alliance who opposed both Sun Yat-sen and Chen Qimei.

As a result, his art was sometimes criticized as being “ vulgar ,” because he painted what he saw: “ rutted and edged hodgepodge of bushes, mounds of earth, and trees in various stages of development .” According to one source, details such as those were equivalent to today ’ s art showing garbage cans or beer bottles on the side of a street scene.

According to a study, " in most areas studied, the various ventures that prompted deforestation rarely generated more than US $ 5 for every ton of carbon they released and frequently returned far less than US $ 1 ".

According to the various Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, beings that live in accordance with dharma proceed more quickly toward dharma yukam, moksha or nirvana ( personal liberation ).

According to Moore, a moral actor cannot survey the “ goodness ” inherent in the various parts of a situation, assign a value to each of them, and then generate a sum in order to get an idea of its total value.

According to the rules of Indo-European ablaut, the full grade ( containing an * e ), * gheud -, might be replaced with the zero-grade ( the * e disappears ), * ghud -, or the o-grade ( the * e changes to an * o ), * ghoud -, accounting for the various forms of the name.

According to Stones ' confidant and close friend of Parsons, Phil Kaufman, the twosome would sit around for hours, playing obscure country records and trading off on various songs with their guitars.

According to English philologist Walter William Skeat ( 1835-1912 ), the origin is to be found in the name for a cask or liquid measure appearing in various forms in several Teutonic languages, in Dutch oxhooft ( modern okshoofd ), Danish oxehoved, Old Swedish oxhufvod, etc.

According to some scholars these five elements or pancha mahabhutas were identified with the various human senses of perception ; earth with smell, air with feeling, fire with vision, water with taste and ether with sound.

According to various reports, Hezbollah is armed with anti-tank guided missiles, namely, the Russian-made AT-3 Sagger, AT-4 Spigot, AT-5 Spandrel, AT-13 Saxhorn-2 ' Metis-M ', АТ-14 Spriggan ' Kornet '; Iranian-made Ra ' ad ( version of AT-3 Sagger ), Towsan ( version of AT-5 Spandrel ), Toophan ( version of BGM-71 TOW ); and European-made MILAN missiles.

According to his writings, Braid began to hear reports concerning various Oriental meditative practices soon after the release of his first publication on hypnotism, Neurypnology ( 1843 ).

According to various authors, she could be:

According to Tylor, human thought evolves through various stages, starting with mythological ideas and gradually progressing to scientific ideas.

According to author Simon Reeve, Afif, Nazzal and one of their confederates had all worked in various capacities in the Olympic Village, and had spent a couple of weeks scouting out their potential target.

According to one of the various myths about him, he founded Ife and dispatched his sons and daughters to establish similar kingdoms in other parts of what is today known as Yorubaland.

:: According to Acts, Paul began working along the traditional Jewish line of proselytizing in the various synagogues where the proselytes of the gate

According to Nichiren's interpretation of the teachings of the Lotus Sutra, persecutions which Nichiren Buddhists encountered should be perceived as a natural outcome of abiding by their beliefs, as predicted in various chapters of that Sutra: " There will be many ignorant people, who will curse and speak ill of us and will attack us with swords and staves, but we will endure all these things ”.

According to various etymologies, the earliest publication of the term picture element itself was in Wireless World magazine in 1927, though it had been used earlier in various U. S. patents filed as early as 1911.

According to the 1885 edition of The American Printer, the importance of punctuation was noted in various sayings by children such as:

According to Karel Werner's Popular Dictionary of Hinduism, " ost Hindu places of pilgrimage are associated with legendary events from the lives of various gods ....

" According to various eyewitnesses, Stalin appeared uninterested.