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.

According to the chroniclers, the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur once asked his courtiers who deserved the exalted title of " Falcon of the Quraysh " ( Saqr Quraish, foremost of the Prophet's tribe ).

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

According to Strabo, writing two centuries after the events, rather than being destroyed by the Romans like their Celtic neighbours, " the Boii were merely driven out of the regions they occupied ; and after migrating to the regions round about the Ister, lived with the Taurisci, and carried on war against the Daci until they perished, tribe and all — and thus they left their country, which was a part of Illyria, to their neighbours as a pasture-ground for sheep.

According to a legend, it is derived from the Forefather Čech, who brought the tribe of Czechs into its land.

According to Julius Caesar, the Belgian tribe of the Atuatuci " was descended from the Cimbri and Teutoni, who, upon their march into our province and Italy, set down such of their stock and stuff as they could not drive or carry with them on the near ( i. e. west ) side of the Rhine, and left six thousand men of their company there with as guard and garrison " ( Gall.

According to the research of Russian anthropologist S. M. Shirokogoroff, in the Manchu tribe of the Amur river mothers used to put their male babies ' penises into mouths as a caress, since it was not considered a sexual act.

According to Strabo their territory was divided in accordance with custom, each tribe was further divided into cantons, each governed by a military aristocratic ruler whose title chief of the tribe gave him the powers of a King-Priest (' tetrarch ').

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

According to the books Exodus, Numbers and Joshua, he became the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses ; his name was Hoshe ' a the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him Yehoshu ' a ( Joshua ) () the name by which he is commonly known ; and he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus, and was probably the same age as Caleb, with whom he is occasionally associated.

According to Harry W. Fritz, " All earlier Missouri River travelers had warned of this powerful and aggressive tribe, determined to block free trade on the river.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was a son of Amram, a member of the Levite tribe of Israel descended from Jacob, and his wife, Jochebed.

According to the enthnographer James Mooney, the population of the tribe was about 200 families in 1702 ; 1000 people in 1780 ; 300 in 1805 ; 80 in 1829, when they were living with the Otoe ; and 13 in 1910 ; afterward, their population numbers are combined with those of the Otoe.

According to him, Mieszko I had fought against the Weltaba tribe, commonly identified with the Veleti.

According to Widsith, Offa's opponents belonged to a tribe or dynasty called Myrgingas

According to Rebbenu Bachya, the word Yahalom in the verse Exodus 28: 18 means " pearl " and was the stone on the Hoshen representing the tribe of Zebulun.

According to some archaeologists, PIE speakers cannot be assumed to have been a single, identifiable people or tribe, but were a group of loosely related populations ancestral to the later, still partially prehistoric, Bronze Age Indo-Europeans.

Brichtothe states that it is " not mere sentimental respect for the physical remains that is ... the motivation for the practice, but rather an assumed connection between proper sepulture and the condition of happiness of the deceased in the afterlife " According to Brichtothe, the early Israelites apparently believed that the graves of family, or tribe, united into one, and that this unified collectivity is to what the Biblical Hebrew term Sheol refers.

According to the Primary Chronicle Rurik was one of the Rus, a Varangian tribe likened by the chronicler to Danes, Swedes, English and Gotlanders.

According to very early traditions that are presumed to contain a good deal of historical truth, the edhilingui were the descendants of the Saxons who led the tribe out of Holstein and during the migrations of the sixth century.

According to the Tanakh, Saul was the son of Kish, of the family of the Matrites, and a member of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel.

According to the Bible the first king, Saul, was a Gibeonite, a tribe with its roots in Edom, and in order to unify the new kingdom and cement his own authority Saul promoted his own god, Yahweh, as god of the kingdom ; previously, each extended family or clan was the " people " of a particular god, but now the entire Israelite community became the " people of Yahweh ".

According to Ibn Ishaq, he was stopped from doing so by two rabbis from the Banu Qurayza tribe, who implored the king to spare the oasis because it was the place " to which a prophet of the Quraysh would migrate in time to come, and it would be his home and resting-place.

According to Tacitus, writing a generation later, these were in fact the original tribe to be called Germani, and all other uses of the term extended from them.

According to ancient Chinese texts, before the Xia Dynasty was established, battles were frequent between the Xia tribe and Chi You's tribe.