Apocryphal legend has it that in 1961, either Jack Liebowitz or Irwin Donenfeld of DC Comics ( then known as National Periodical Publications )

Hans-Josef Klauck in Apocryphal gospels: an introduction ( 2003 ) notes that " it has become almost canonical in twentieth-century scholarship to speak of three Jewish-Christian gospels: a Gospel of the Hebrews ( EvHeb ), a Gospel of the Nazaraeans ( EvNaz ) and a Gospel of the Ebionites ( EvEb )".

Once more, antiquity has handed down to us many writings which are sheer forgeries, like some of the Apocryphal books, or the Sibylline oracles, or those famous Epistles of Phalaris which formed the subject of Bentley's great critical essay.

Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England has it listed as non-canonical ( but still, with the other Apocryphal texts, " the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners ").

Breznik was first mentioned in the 11th-century Story of Isaiah and Bulgarian Apocryphal Chronicle as ; it was already a city by then.

In addition to the known Apocryphal works, there are also small fragments of texts, parts of unknown ( or uncertain ) works.

The Acts of Paul is one of the major works and earliest pseudepigraphal ( noncanonical ) series from the New Testament also known as Apocryphal Acts, an approximate date given to the Acts of Paul is 160 CE.

" The second century Gospel of the Nazareans writes the prayer in this manner, and the writer of this early document, even is it is Apocryphal, would likely have known the meaning of the word.

Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.

Whether historically a fact or not, the legend has a certain symbolic value.

Later research has shown this part of the legend of the Re Galantuomo to be false.

The idea has also some backing in German legend, for example the Gesta Treverorum ( a 12th century German medieval chronicle ) makes Trebeta son of Ninus the founder of Trier.

The traditional legend has it that Byzas from Megara ( a town near Athens ), founded Byzantium in 657 BC, when he sailed northeast across the Aegean Sea.

They revelled in the legend that he was taken by Timur to Samarkand, and embellished it with a cast of characters to create an oriental fantasy that has maintained its appeal.

Manduessedum ( Mancetter ), near the modern town of Atherstone in Warwickshire, has also been suggested, as has ' The Rampart ' near Messing in Essex, according to legend.

Camelot has become a permanent fixture in interpretations of the Arthurian legend.

In German legend, dragon blood has the power to render invincible skin or armor bathed in it, as is the case with Siegfried's skin or Ortnit's armor.

" And thus was born a legend which has never entirely perished.

Although he has become something of a political legend, Donald would have abhorred any attempt to turn him into some kind of secular saint.

Although mythical elements are not so prominent in Exodus as in Genesis, the echoes of ancient legends are crucial to understanding the book's origins and purpose: for example, the story of the infant Moses's salvation from the Nile has its basis in an earlier legend of king Sargon, while the story of the parting of the Red Sea trades on Mesopotamian creation mythology.

One legend has said that during the conflict, El Cid killed an Aragonese knight in single combat, thereby receiving the honorific title Campeador.

This legend also has many other flaws ( it claims that Jingū was flown into the middle of the promised land and then conquered into Japan ) which have largely discredited the story among historians.

An urban legend has it that the phrase refers to an old English law under which a man could legally beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb ( though no such law ever existed ).

There has been much uncertainty over Rasputin's life and influence as accounts of his life have often been based on dubious memoirs, hearsay and legend.

The legend has it that while he was there, a monkey brought him honey to eat.

A 17th-century legend has it that Hedwig, while on a pilgrimage to Rome, stopped at Bad Zell in Austria, where she had healing waters spring up at a source which today still bears her name.

This, however, has not prevented Scott from making an important contribution to the noble-hero strand of the legend, too, because some subsequent motion picture treatments of the Robin Hood's adventures give Robin traits that are characteristic of Ivanhoe as well.

Urban legend has it that the film was pulled from circulation due to the similarity of its plot to the death of President Kennedy the following year, but Frankenheimer states in the Champlin book that it was pulled because of a legal battle between producer Sinatra and the studio over Sinatra's share of the profits.

A spurious legend has it that the invention of the game saved an ancient city in time of war, and its widespread popularity helped raise funds to build the Great Wall of China.

The historical basis for the King Arthur legend has long been debated by scholars.

In recent years the portrayal of Arthur as a real hero of the 5th century has also made its way into film versions of the Arthurian legend, most notably the TV series Arthur of the Britons

* The Magic Sword, 1961 film loosely based on the legend of St. George and the Dragon

At Christmas 1961, Nelson began dating Sharon Kristin " Kris " Harmon ( born June 25, 1945 ), the daughter of football legend Tom Harmon and actress Elyse Knox ( née Elsie Kornbrath ), and the older sister of Kelly and Mark.

* 1961 Saint Jerome and the Lion ( retelling of the legend in verse )

Frankie Billy Randall ( born September 25, 1961 in Birmingham, Alabama ) is a three-time world champion boxer, who is best known as the man who handed Mexican legend Julio César Chávez his first professional defeat.

In 1961, after the failed CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba, these assassination attempts, which included hit teams of snipers, trained on Roselli's secret CIA base in the Florida Keys, continued with a vengeance, now with CIA legend William " Wild Bill " King Harvey, taking charge of Roselli's efforts.

SAR Records was a record company founded by soul music legend Sam Cooke in 1961.

However, according to local legend as recounted by H. Reid in The Virginian Railway ( Kalmbach, 1961 ), it was named by Squire James Galsepy Kincaid and other locals on a rainy day in 1871 as a commentary on the standing groundwater outside the new post office along Loup Creek.

He was best known for covering the Chicago Cubs first on WIND ( AM ) 1955-56, then on WGN radio from 1957 to 1964, his broadcast partner was Hall of Famer Lou Boudreau 1957 to April 1960, 1961 to 1964 and Cubs legend Charlie Grimm April 1960 to October 1960.

In 1961 the San Diego legend known as KOGO was born.

* The legend of the Bermuda Triangle is a manufactured mystery, perpetuated by writers who either purposely or unknowingly made use of misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and sensationalism.

The blood of a slain dragon is depicted as either beneficent or as poisonous in medieval legend and literary fiction.

His meteoric rise and fall were clearly the stuff of legend, and few if any players, either before or since, have had such an immense impact over so brief a period.

Depending on the version of the legend, the Jews in Prague were to be either expelled or killed under the rule of Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor.

Scholars such as Rosalind Clark hold that the names are unrelated, the Welsh " Morgan " ( Wales being the source of Arthurian legend ) being derived from root words associated with the sea, while the Irish " Morrígan " has its roots either in a word for " terror " or a word for " greatness ".

This could suggest two main possibilities: either that an early form of the Robin Hood legend was already well established in the mid-13th century ; or alternatively that the name " Robin Hood " preceded the outlaw hero that we know ; so that the " Robin Hood " of legend was so called because that was seen as an appropriate name for an outlaw.

Thus this report of a feud between Eadwig and Dunstan could either have been based on a true incident of a political quarrel for power between a young king and powerful church officials who wished to control the king and who later spread this legend to blacken his reputation, or it could be an urban legend ; the Chronicle also tells of Odo putting aside the King's marriage on the grounds Eadwig and his wife were " too related ".

According to legend, Isabella and Mortimer famously plotted to murder Edward in such a way as not to draw blame on themselves, sending a famous order ( in ) which, depending on where the comma was inserted, could mean either " Do not be afraid to kill Edward ; it is good " or " Do not kill Edward ; it is good to fear ".

Ancient pictures of the Roman twins usually follow certain symbolic traditions, depending on the legend they follow: they either show a shepherd, the she-wolf, the twins under a fig tree, and one or two birds ( Livy, Plutarch ); or they depict two shepherds, the she-wolf, the twins in a cave, seldom a fig tree, and never any birds ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus ).

:: According to legend, Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March famously plotted to murder Edward II of England in such a way as not to draw blame on themselves, sending a famous order in Latin which, depending on where the comma was inserted, could mean either " Do not be afraid to kill Edward ; it is good " or " Do not kill Edward ; it is good to fear ":

In other versions of this legend, either Robert Buckner or Edmund Joseph were the accused.

According to legend Fiachnae, who was at war in Scotland, came home with a victory because of a bargain made with Manannán ( either by him, or by his wife ) to let Manannán have a child by his wife.

There are reports of far larger pike, but these are either misidentifications of the pike's larger relative the muskellunge, or simply have not been properly documented and belong in the realm of legend.

A well called Connla's Well existed under the sea that was filled with fish and either hazel or rowan trees, depending on which legend you are reading, dropped their nuts or berries, depending again on the legend, into the well.

Both were born in Hawaii, and no legend tells of either of them sailing away with a promise to return.

Noblesville was named either for James Noble, one of the first two US senators from Indiana, or according to legend, for Lavina Noble of Indianapolis, to whom Josiah Polk was engaged.

Local legend holds that Bonnie and Clyde either robbed the Ponder State Bank or attempted to rob it, only to discover it had gone broke the week before.

Conversely, Joseph Horowitz contends that those who keep the Toscanini legend alive are members of a " Toscanini cult ", an idea not altogether refuted by Frank, but not embraced by him, either.

Caesar's Tower contained a " grim " basement dungeon ; according to local legend dating back to at least 1644 it is also known as Poitiers Tower either because prisoners from the Battle of Poitiers in 1356 may have been imprisoned there or because the ransoms raised from the battle helped to pay for its construction.

According to a longstanding French legend, they either sailed to or were cast adrift-either way they arrived off the coast of what is now France, at " a sort of fortress named Oppidum-Râ ".

There is no evidence that either version of this legend is factual.