According to folklorists, there is no written evidence for a " Friday the 13th " superstition before the 19th century.

According to superstition, death watches are a sign of impending death.

According to a sailing superstition, swallows are a good omen to those at sea.

According to Japanese superstition, breaking the thong on one's geta is considered very unlucky.

According to Arnold Schoenberg, this superstition began with Mahler, who, after writing his Eighth Symphony, wrote Das Lied von der Erde.

According to a theatrical superstition, called the Scottish curse, speaking the name Macbeth inside a theatre will cause disaster.

According to local superstition, clay from the woman's grave has the power to ward off vermin.

The opera, and the suite, begin with an orchestral ' musical sneeze ', best explained in Kodály's own words: " According to Hungarian superstition, if a statement is followed by a sneeze of one of the hearers, it is regarded as confirmation of its truth.

According to a well-known superstition, if money or jewellery keeps disappearing mysteriously from your house, a toyol might be responsible.

According to their superstition they worship the god of waterfowls-swans, geese and other birds swimming on water … His throne in the temple is made of different kinds of broadcloth, canvas and hide, built like a nest ; in it sits the monster who is always highly revered, most of all at the times of catching waterfowls in nests … This idol is so notorious that people come from distant villages to perform atrocious sacrifice to it-offering cattle, mainly horses ; and they are certain that it ( the idol ) is the bearer of many goods, mainly ensuring the richness of waterfowls …"

According to Capp's brother Elliot, Alfred had finished all of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw by the time he turned 13.

According to the principal editor of the journal, Leonard Lewisohn: " Although a number of major Islamic poets easily rival the likes of Dante, Shakespeare and Milton in importance and output, they still enjoy only a marginal literary fame in the West because the works of Arabic and Persian thinkers, writers and poets are considered as negligible, frivolous, tawdry sideshows beside the grand narrative of the Western Canon.

According to Anderson, Oxford definitely visited Venice, Padua, Milan, Genoa, Palermo, Florence, Siena and Naples, and probably passed through Messina, Mantua and Verona, all cities used as settings by Shakespeare.

According to Marples, Shakespeare drew directly from Plautus “ parallels in plot, in incident, and in character ,” and was undeniably influenced by the classical playwright ’ s work.

The Mind According to Shakespeare: Psychoanalysis in the Bard ’ s Writing ( London: Praeger, 2006 )

Through his language, he tends to characterize Rome as “ masculine ” and Egypt as “ feminine .” According to Gayle Greene, “ the ‘ feminine ’ world of love and personal relationships is secondary to the ‘ masculine ’ world of war and politics, has kept us from realizing that Cleopatra is the play ’ s protagonist, and so skewed our perceptions of character, theme, and structure .” The highlighting of these starkly contrasting qualities of the two backdrops of Antony and Cleopatra, in both Shakespeare ’ s language and the words of critics, brings attention to the characterization of the title characters, since their respective countries are meant to represent and emphasize their attributes.

According to this reading, Egypt is viewed as destructive and vulgar ; the critic Paul Lawrence Rose writes: “ Shakespeare clearly envisages Egypt as a political hell for the subject, where natural rights count for nothing .” Through the lens of such a reading, the ascendancy of Rome over Egypt does not speak to the practice of empire-building as much as it suggests the inevitable advantage of reason over sensuality.

According to the apocryphal story, James I after a good meal, officially knighted Sirloin steak (" Sir " loin ) at Hoghton Tower, a large stately home to north east of the town, where William Shakespeare once worked.

According to scholar Larry Kreitzer, The Undiscovered Country has more references to William Shakespeare than any other Star Trek work until at least 1996.

According to Kay Smith, the use of Shakespeare has meaning in itself and also derives new meaning ( underscoring cultural politics in the film ) by its rearticulation in a new form.

According to this theory, the dedication is simply Thorpe's tribute to his colleague and has nothing to do with Shakespeare.

According to the New York Times, it became Wanamaker's " Great Obsession " to realise an exact replica of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, eventually securing the financial support of philanthropist and fellow lover of Shakespeare, Samuel H. Scripps.

* According to John Madden's 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, the play that became Romeo and Juliet was originally intended as a comedy, but developed into the tragic play we know due to a doomed love affair which Shakespeare himself underwent at the time.

According to the political journalist and classicist Garry Wills, although Shakespeare has Porcia die by the method Plutarch repeats, but rejects, " the historical Porcia died of illness ( possibly of plague ) a year before the battle of Philippi "...“ but Valerius Maximus wrote that she killed herself at news of Brutus ’ s death in that battle.

According to Chatwin's biographer Nicholas Shakespeare, the Chatwins ' marriage seems to have been celibate.

According to Tassinari, both Florio and Shakespeare shared a fascination with Italy, with proverbs and with enriching English.

According to Angus L. Bowmer, founder of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a financial backer demanded that Barrymore be replaced, fearing a disastrous drinking binge.

According to Knopfler, it was Dylan's idea to recruit Robbie Shakespeare and Sly Dunbar as the rhythm section.

" According to The Independent, the entire album Right Time was " revolutionary ", the breakthrough album of " masters of groove and propulsion " Dunbar and Shakespeare, with " Sly's radical drumming matching the singers ' insurrectionary lyrics blow-for-blow.

According to legend, the Ghost was originally played by Shakespeare himself.

According to Clinton Heylin, author of " Great White Wonders ", the concept of a bootleg record can be traced back to the days of Shakespeare, where unofficial transcripts of his plays would be published.

According to Dan Harder, Shakespeare derived the name Sycorax from Corax of Syracuse.

According to tradition the young Shakespeare wrote a lampoon of Lucy at some point in the mid 1580s.

`` According to Rose, he arrived here a couple minutes before nine and spotted Thor in the water, got a hooked pole from the pool-equipment locker and started hauling him out.

According to Day, Rapp had auditioned two hundred vocalists when she got the job.

According to Southern Maldivian oral tradition, traders and fishermen were occasionally lost at sea and got stranded in one of the islands of the Chagos.

According to the Sumerians, Enlil helped create the humans, but then got tired of their noise and tried to kill them by sending a flood.

According to writer Mike Carey, " the events leading up to Messiah Complex, Iceman got blindsided by Mystique " are " still preying on to a large extent " and " some of those events be revisited.

According to former Indian diplomat G Parthasarathy, " only after we got nothing from the US did arms supplies from the Soviet Union to India commence ".

According to Serge Klarsfeld, since the now complete and constant publicity which the artworks got in 1996, the majority of the French Jewish community is nevertheless in favour of the return to the normal French civil rule of prescription acquisitive of any unclaimed good after another long period of time and consequently to their ultimate integration into the common French heritage instead of their transfer to foreign institutions like during World War II.

According to biographers, Harding got along better with the press than any other previous President, being a former newspaperman.

According to columnist and biographer Mike Royko, Daley got along better with editors and publishers than with reporters.

According to Ovid, Proetus ended up changed into stone by Perseus, the grandson of Acrisius ( who had eventually got expelled by Proetus ), upon being made by him to see the head of Medusa.

According to legend, it was at this time that Kenna got his nickname from Chicago Tribune publisher Joseph Medill, because of his small stature.

She got her start in supporting roles in The World According to Garp ( 1982 ), The Big Chill ( 1983 ), and The Natural ( 1984 ), which all earned her nominations for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

According to a NASA press release, APOLLO researcher Tom Murphy said, " We got about 2, 000 photons from Lunokhod 1 on our first try.

According to Imagineer Bob Gurr, " the name got stuck ," and it was no longer a working title.

According to this, the Scythians originally lived south of the Rhipaean mountains, until they got into a conflict with a tribe called the Issedones, pressed in their turn by the Cyclopes ; and so the Scythians decided to migrate westwards.

According to TVS president Eddie Einhorn, the games actually got decent ratings at first, but affiliates started bailing out after the Philadelphia and Jacksonville free-ticket scandals, a trickle that became a flood after two teams moved in the middle of the season and two more folded altogether.

According to Wouk, " head Harry Cohn looked into the matter, called me back, and said in his tough gravelly voice, ' I've got you beat on the legalities, but I've listened to the record and it's no goddamn good, so I'm yanking it.

According to an interview in Blood & Honour magazine, he got in touch with neo-Nazi organisation Zorn 88 ’ s ( later called Norges Nasjonalsocialistiske Bevegelse ) magazine Gjallarhorn in 1992 and joined White Aryan Resistance before he murdered Øystein Aarseth.

According to his long-suffering agent George Fields ( Sydney Pollack ), Michael's attention to detail and difficult reputation got him fired from playing a tomato in a television commercial, because the idea of a tomato sitting down was " illogical " to him.

According to a 1937 Fortune magazine article, Warner's most intense contract disputes involved Cagney, " who got sick of being typed as a girl-hitting mick and of making five pictures a year instead of four.

According to Careerbliss. com, Hilton Worldwide ranked the first Happiest Companies in America for 2012 got score 4. 36 from 1 to 5.

According to rumors, after Meriba went out of jail he got employed at the heavily armed Counter Terror Unit ( CTU ), which is being led by Dino Bouterse, son of Desi Bouterse.

According to George Schlatter, the show's creator, " Humphrey later said that not doing it may have cost him the election ", and " said the rest of his life that appearing on Laugh-In is what got him elected.

According to legend, a group of fur traders had earlier stashed supplies ( including gunpowder ) in a cache along the river near Laporte, and that is how the river got its name.

According to the late historian Mary McRae of Homosassa, Inverness got its name from a lonely Scotsman, far away from his home, who gazed upon the blue waters of the Native American-named Tsala Apopka Lake and thought the area looked like the headlands and lochs of Inverness, Scotland, deserving the name Inverness.