According to scholars including Neil Forsyth and John L. McKenzie, the Old Testament incorporates stories, or fragments of stories, from extra-biblical mythology.

According to Every, one example may be " the myth of St. George " and other stories about saints battling dragons, which were " modelled no doubt in many cases on older representations of the creator and preserver of the world in combat with chaos ".

According to Lorena Laura Stookey, " many scholars " see a link between stories in " Irish-Celtic mythology " about journeys to the Otherworld in search of a cauldron of rejuvenation and medieval accounts of the quest for the Holy Grail.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

According to " Twenty rules for writing detective stories ," by Van Dine in 1928: " The detective story is a kind of intellectual game.

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 literary critic Terry Eagleton, Le Fanu, together with his predecessor Maturin and his successor Stoker, form a sub-genre of Irish Gothic, whose stories, featuring castles set in a barren landscape, with a cast of remote aristocrats dominating an atavistic peasantry, represent in allegorical form the political plight of colonial Ireland subjected to the Protestant Ascendancy

According to the stories that developed about him, Chauvin was born in Rochefort, around 1780.

According to several stories, this displeased the Hatano family, and a short while later several of Hideharu's retainers murdered Akechi Mitsuhide's mother ( or aunt ).

According to Holmes, it was an encounter with the father of one of his classmates that led him to take up detection as a profession, and he spent the six years following university working as a consulting detective, before financial difficulties led him to take Watson as a roommate, at which point the narrative of the stories begins.

According to Saint historian Burl Barer, Charteris made the decision to remove Templar from his usual confidence-game trappings, not to mention his usual co-stars Holm, Uniatz, Orace and Teal, as they weren't appropriate for the post-war stories he was writing.

According to some stories the Helen who was taken by Paris was a fake, and the real Helen was in Egypt, where she was reunited with Menelaus.

According to stories that may have legendary elements, an attempt was made to seize William at Valognes, but he escaped under cover of darkness, seeking refuge with King Henry.

According to one historian of the show, the idea of the format was to make the hosts the reporters, to always feature stories that were of national importance but focused upon individuals involved with, or in conflict with, those issues, and to limit the reports ' airtime to around thirteen minutes.

According to the Roman Catholic faith the first Pope was a fisherman, the Apostle Peter, a number of the miracles, and many parables and stories reported in the Bible involve it.

According to these early recorded stories, gods and kings, like the 7th century BC scholar-king Assurbanipal, paid close attention to dreams.

According to this view the psychological ‘ I ’ is a narrative fiction, something created only from intake of symbolic data and its own ability to create stories about itself from that data.

According to Aristotle, writing nearly two centuries later, Thespis was a singer of dithyrambs ( songs about stories from mythology with choric refrains ).

According to a number of moralistic stories, there was a golden tripod ( or, in some versions of the story, a bowl or cup ) which was to be given to the wisest.

According to screenwriter David Gerrold, the show's producers noticed similarities in the two stories and asked Heinlein for permission to use the idea.

According to the documentary hypothesis, the story of Potiphar and his wife derives from the Yahwist source, and stands in the same place that the stories of the butler and the baker and Pharaoh's dreams stand in the Elohist text.

According to the narrative of the synoptic Gospels, an anonymous disciple remarks on the greatness of Herod's Temple, a building thought to have been some 10 stories high and likely to have been adorned with gold, silver, and other precious items ( Kilgallen 245 ).

According to the stories Gangnihessou came from a dynasty that in the 16th century had come, from Tado on the river Moro, a place that now lies in Togo, to Allada, and there became kings of Great Ardra.

According to the Rettig commission and the Valech Report, close to 3, 200 were executed or " disappeared ", and at least 29, 000 imprisoned and tortured.

According to certain authorities, twelve teeth of the saint were taken from the tomb in the fifteenth century and kept in the treasury, but these have now disappeared ( Stokes, Apennines, p. 183 ).

According to different sources, 8, 000 to 30, 000 people, are estimated to have disappeared and died during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

According to Herodotus's Histories, the seventh century BC sage Aristeas of Proconnesus was first found dead, after which his body disappeared from a locked room.

According to the Mahabharata, the Sarasvati dried up in a desert ( at a place named Vinasana or Adarsana ); after having disappeared in the desert, reappears in some places ; and joins the sea " impetuously ".

According to the legend, Romulus mysteriously disappeared in a storm or whirlwind, during or shortly after offering public sacrifice at or near the Quirinal Hill.

According to Jackson, some Howard officials had speculated that it disappeared during the Civil Rights student protests of the 1960s.

According to the official census of 1801, fewer than 45, 000 guaraníes remained ; cattle, sheep, and horses had disappeared ; the fields and orchards were overgrown or cut down and the churches were in ruins.

According to the report, throughout the 1980s political killings rose to a peak of 3, 500 in 1988, averaging some 1, 500 victims per year since then, and " over 1, 500 civilians are also believed to have “ disappeared ” since 1978.

According to folklore, the lights sometime follow or approached people and have disappeared when fired upon, only to reappear later on.

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

According to George Sphrantzes, it disappeared just days before Constantinople fell, ending the Byzantine Empire.

According to the official count of the 1984 truth commission, between 1976 and 1979, 8, 353 Argentinians were killed or " disappeared ", and other 113 were killed or disappeared at the hands of the military regime between 1980 and 1983.

According to the official count of the 1984 truth commission, between 1976 and 1979, 8, 353 Argentinians were killed or " disappeared ", and other 113 were killed or disappeared at the hands of the military regime between 1980 and 1983.

According to the study: " In three of 14 patients, depersonalization symptoms disappeared entirely and seven patients showed a marked improvement.

According to accusations by Amnesty International, Zena Mahlangu, a high school student, disappeared from her school in October 2002.

According to police reports, Rodriguez admitted to being near the Columbia Mall the night Sjodin disappeared, allegedly viewing the film Once Upon a Time in Mexico at the Columbia Mall Cinema 4.

According to Clanton, Stilwell disappeared from the hotel before he was found several blocks away, shot dead by the tracks.

According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ( IACHR ), this was justified by the junta by the following reasoning: " The anguish generated in the rest of the surviving family because of the absence of the disappeared would develop, after a few years, into a new generation of subversive or potentially subversive elements, thereby not permitting an effective end to the Dirty War.

According to different sources, 12, 261 to 30, 000 people, are estimated to have disappeared and died during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

Despite the criticism, The World According to Smith & Jones returned for a second series in 1988, and then, disappeared from the schedules without a repeat ( unlike Series 1, which was repeated in battle against the BBC in late 1987 ).