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 Aristotle, the four elements rise or fall toward their natural place in concentric layers surrounding the center of the earth and form the terrestrial or sublunary spheres.

According to non-Orthodox Jews and critical historians, Jewish law too has been affected by surrounding cultures ( for example, some scholars argue that the establishment of absolute monotheism in Judaism was a reaction against the dualism of Zoroastrianism that Jews encountered when living under Persian rule ; Jews rejected polygamy during the Middle Ages, influenced by their Christian neighbors ).

According to one version of the legend, Chūai's son was born three years after the death of Chūai, which lends further support to the notion that the stories surrounding him are based on myth rather than actual events.

According to the Five Books of Moses, Abraham is revered as the one who overcame the idol worship of his family and surrounding people by recognizing the Hebrew God and establishing a covenant with him and creating the foundation of what has been called by scholars " Ethical Monotheism ".

According to Jody Joy, curator of the Iron Age collection at the British Museum, the importance of Lindow Man lies more in how he lived rather than how he died, as the circumstances surrounding his demise may never be fully established.

According to Weber, the city as a politically autonomous organization of people living in close proximity, employed in a variety of specialized trades, and physically separated from the surrounding countryside, only fully developed in the West and to a great extent shaped its cultural evolution:

This would not resolve the paradox given the following argument: According to the laws of thermodynamics, the intermediate matter must eventually heat up ( or cool down, if it was initially hotter ) until it is in thermal equilibrium with the surrounding stars.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric, chieftains of a clan known as the Gewisse, who were said to have landed on the Hampshire coast and conquered the surrounding area, including the Isle of Wight.

According to the Israeli Human Rights activists, Jewish settlements in the Ramallah area, such as Beit El and Psagot, prevented the expansion of the city and cut it off from the surrounding villages.

According to a popular legend, the capital was moved when the emperor's advisers brought the emperor to the hills surrounding Nanjing and pointed out the emperor's palace showing the vulnerability of the palace to artillery attack.

According to contemporaneous chronicler Richer, the castle built by Foulques Nerra in the 990s consisted of a tower and a surrounding enclosure.

According to Consumer Reports, " The law has left consumers without the protections surrounding the manufacture and marketing of over-the-counter or prescription medications " and it became the FDA's responsibility to prove that a supplement is not safe.

According to the US Census, Bentonville and surrounding communities in Benton County is second in growth for Arkansas and among the 100 fastest growing counties in the United States.

According to a persistent legend, the name " Bozrah " was derived from another Biblical text, which came to someone's mind under the particular circumstances surrounding the community's petition to the Connecticut General Assembly for township status.

According to legend, Ross, Minnesota and a number of other surrounding communities are reportedly " hot spots " for sightings of the Native American mythical creature known as the Wendigo.

According to Henry Gannett ’ s work from “ The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States ” he states, “ The town was so named because of the bluish atmosphere surrounding the hill on which the village is located ”.

According to the US Geological survey, Williamsburg and the surrounding area sits on a 550 feet thick bed of sandstone, divided into medina white, red, and gray, with beds of red shale.

According to the Handbook of Texas, area residents estimated that about 2, 200 people lived in Kendleton and surrounding areas.

" According to this version, 39th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues became known as Hell's Kitchen and the name was later expanded to the surrounding streets.

According to textual scholars, the reason for the abrupt interruption this passage causes to the surrounding narrative, and the chronological anomaly it seems to present, is that it derives from the Jahwist source, while the immediately surrounding narrative is from the Elohist.

According to this treaty, the Dutch released the Republican leadership and returned the area surrounding Yogyakarta to Republican control on June 1949.

According to the 2005 census, there were 526, 629 people in the city and the surrounding communities of the municipality ; INEGI projects a population of 631, 712 by the 2010 census.

* According to various sources, including The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, the Mushroom Kingdom and its surrounding areas and locations are part of the " Mushroom World ," a parallel version of the Earth, or " Real World.

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 522 residents of Nablus and surrounding refugee camps, including civilians, were killed and 3, 104 injured during IDF military operations against militants during the Second Intifada from 2000 to 2005.