One day in a bar, so the legend goes, someone put a beer stein with too much force on the monacle and broke it.

The motif of Faust's love for Helen of Troy goes back to the sources of the Faustian legend.

The Oxford Dictionary of Popes acknowledges that this legend was widely believed for centuries, even among Catholic circles, but declares that there is " no contemporary evidence for a female Pope at any of the dates suggested for her reign ," and goes on to say that " the known facts of the respective periods make it impossible to fit female Pope in ".

One legend concerning Asmodeus goes on to state that Solomon one day asked Asmodeus what could make demons powerful over man, and Asmodeus asked to be freed and given the ring so that he could demonstrate ; Solomon agreed but Asmodeus threw the ring into the sea and it was swallowed by a fish.

As the story goes, at the news of the Mongol approach, the whole town of Kitezh with all its inhabitants was submerged into a lake, where, as legend has it, it may be seen to this day.

Under Abbasid rule, the legend goes, the secret of papermaking was obtained from two Chinese prisoners from the Battle of Talas in 751, which led to the first paper mill in the Islamic world being founded in Samarkand.

As the legend goes, the Buckriders were a gang of ruthless robbers who made the Overmaas region ( the current Limburg ) an unsafe place to live from the 1730s to the 1780s.

In Cornwall, a similar legend prevails, however, the saying goes that the devil urinated on them.

As local legend goes, one Griffin Tipsword came to this part of Illinois and took up his abode with the Kickapoo Indians.

As local legend goes, one of the construction engineers who built the railroad through Cabool also worked on railroad construction in Afghanistan and thought this area of southern Texas County looked similar to the region of Kabul, Afghanistan.

As the legend goes there was a mix up at the post office-a missing comma.

Originally, the township was named Roulet, until ( so the legend goes ) the Post Office Department misspelled it.

The legend goes that Gould wanted to bring his railroad through Jefferson but the town leaders refused because they had the river traffic.

The legend goes that during the siege the people of Geraardsbergen threw some of their food which was left over the city wall.

As the legend goes, when meeting Marcel Duchamp Ginsberg kissed his shoe and Corso cut off his tie.

Hence, he used " we " as " God and I ...," or so the legend goes.

In 1588 Brixham watched Sir Francis Drake attacking the Spanish Armada after he had ( so the legend goes ) finished his game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe.

Herleva, legend goes, seeing the Duke on his ramparts above, raised her skirts perhaps a bit more than necessary in order to attract the Duke's eye.

The legend goes on to say that the Jews threw the pig's heart and the holy consecrated host into the river that ran through the city, and that in a few days a terrible epidemic developed among the pigs in the surrounding areas, many of which died.

The legend goes that he was so disgusted by the " primitive " Crucifix of Donatello in the Santa Croce church, that he made this one.

In this year ( so the legend goes ), the abbey messenger was robbed en route to delivering the order to harvest and the cutting was delayed for three weeks, time enough for the Botrytis to take hold.

In Qu's exile, so goes the legend, he supposedly produced some of the greatest early poetry in Chinese literature expressing his fervent love for his state and his deepest concern for its future.

The legend goes that Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( ca.

The buffalo goes back to a legend that the rules of Nan and Phrae were brothers, and met at a mountain to decide about the boundary between their lands.

The legend goes that the Chapel has appeared to be in flames, just before a high status death, but has later shown no damage from any such fire.

A popular legend, originating from 12th century chronicles, tells how when he first fled to the Somerset Levels, Alfred was given shelter by a peasant woman who, unaware of his identity, left him to watch some cakes she had left cooking on the fire.

According to a version of the Ariadne legend noted by Plutarch, Theseus abandoned Ariadne at Amathousa, where she died giving birth to her child and was buried in a sacred tomb.

In an echo of the legend that they spoke about in the desert, she asks him to make a wish.

Her early and later allegorical and didactic treatises reflect both autobiographical information about her life and views and also her own individualized and humanist approach to the scholastic learned tradition of mythology, legend, and history she inherited from clerical scholars and to the genres and courtly or scholastic subjects of contemporary French and Italian poets she admired.

The Principia Discordia states that her parents may be as described in Greek legend, or that she may be the daughter of Void.

When Philip of Macedon was about to attack the city, according to the legend she alerted the townspeople with her ever present torches, and with her pack of dogs, which served as her constant companions.

According to legend, she went barefoot even in winter, and when she was urged by the Bishop of Wrocław to wear shoes, she carried them in her hands.

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.

One Buddhist legend from the Complete Tale of Guanyin and the Southern Seas () presents Guanyin as vowing to never rest until she had freed all sentient beings from the samsara or reincarnation.

Due to her association with the legend of the Great Flood, where she sent down a dog holding rice grains in its tail after the flood, she is worshiped as a rice goddess.

Still many, however, continue to find the legends more memorable than the history, seeing her as a traitor, as may be assumed from a legend that she had a twin sister who went North and the pejorative nickname La Chingada associated with her twin.

In 1449 King René d ' Anjou gave to Angers Cathedral the amphora from Cana in which Jesus changed water to wine, acquiring it from the nuns of Marseilles, who told him that Mary Magdalene had brought it with her from Judea, relating to the legend where she was the jilted bride at the wedding following John the Evangelist received his calling from Jesus.

According to legend, it was draped around the Greek goddess Aphrodite when she rose from the sea, born of Ouranos's semen.

A notable legend about Padthaway is the ghost at Padthaway Estate, her name is Eliza Lawson but she is not the Eliza Lawson who settled and built the Padthaway Estate in the 1800s.

Kate McGarrigle's song about the legend was one of the last things she wrote prior to her death, and received its only performance at her last concert at Royal Albert Hall in December 2009.

She symbolizes regrowth when she helps the starving stranger ( see also Roman Charity, works of art based on the legend of a daughter as wet nurse to her dying father ).

According to Irish legend, as a young girl Ní Mháille wished to go on a trading expedition to Spain with her father, and on being told she could not because her long hair would catch in the ship's ropes, she cut off most of her hair to embarrass her father into taking her, thus earning her the nickname " Gráinne Mhaol " (; from maol bald or having cropped hair ).

According to legend, she took lead from the roof of the fortress and melted it, then poured it onto the heads of the attacking soldiers.

In the first legend, Trapani stemmed from the sickle which fell from the hands of the goddess Demeter while she was seeking for her daughter Persephone, who had been kidnapped by Hades.

Local legend tells that the lagoon was created after a pilgrim who came to see the Madonna refused to pray to the Madonna because she was black.