Frederick is the subject of many legends, including that of a sleeping hero, like the much older British Celtic legends of Arthur or Bran the Blessed.

In the Zoroastrian legends, the tyrant Zahak is to finally be killed by the Iranian hero Garšāsp before the final days.

* In folk epic and legends, Miloš was celebrated as the hero of supernatural birth and strength ( his mother was a fairy, demonic creature or his father was a dragon ; he had got his strength from the milk of the mare ).

Various themes are featured in Mexican corridos, and corrido lyrics are often old legends ( stories ) and ballads about a famed criminal or hero in the rural frontier areas of Mexico.

In the legends of Robin Hood, Nottingham Castle is the scene of the final showdown between the Sheriff and the hero outlaw in many tales.

* Horatius Cocles, a hero in the historical legends of ancient Rome

A king in the mountain, king under the mountain or sleeping hero is a prominent motif in folklore and mythology that is found in many folktales and legends.

* a list of other sleeping hero legends

Although the identification of the Turanian tribe with the Turks is a late development, since the term Turanian originally applied to Eastern Iranian tribes of Central Asia, Turks cultivated the legends of Afrasiab as a Turkish hero after they had come into contact with the Iranians.

* Jack ( hero ), an archetypal trickster hero appearing in many folk tales, fairy tales, legends and literature.

The highwayman known as Juraj Jánošík ( 1688 – 1713 ) became a hero of many folk legends in the Slovak, Czech, and Polish cultures by the 19th century and hundreds of literary works about him have since been published.

According to legend, the crypt may be the final resting place of the great hero Fionn mac Cumhaill, about whom legends abound in Irish and Scottish mythology.

The wide variety of cultures in which the Gesar epic is encountered means that the name for the hero varies. In Tibetan legends Gesar is variously called Gesar of Ling, Ling Gesar, Gesar Norbu Dradul.

Spelled Caladcholg, it is also associated with the more obscure Ulster hero Fergus mac Leda, suggesting a conflation of two legends.

Snorri Sturluson wrote in the Ynglinga saga that Haki had amassed a great force of warriors and sometimes plundered together with his brother Hagbard ( who himself was the hero of one of the most popular legends of ancient Scandinavia, see Hagbard and Signy ).

El Santo, along with Blue Demon and Mil Máscaras, is one of the most famous and iconic of all Mexican luchadores, and has been referred to as one of " the greatest legends in Mexican sports " His wrestling career spanned nearly five decades, during which he became a folk hero and a symbol of justice for the common man through his appearances in comic books and movies.

In 1971, Dr John ( Mac Rebennack ) recorded a song called ' Black John the Conqueror ' on his ' Sun Moon & Herbs ' album which describes some of the legends surrounding the folk hero and as well as the powers of the herb.

Various themes are featured in Mexican corridos, and corrido lyrics are often old legends ( stories ) and ballads about a famed criminal or hero in the rural frontier areas of Mexico.

There are some similarities between the legends of Rostam and those pertaining to the great Irish hero Cúchulainn.

Far from being a rhymed adaptation of the Biblical Book of Samuel, it fuses Biblical material, Midrashic legends and rabbinical folklore with the European courtly poetry, rendering king David into a medieval chivalric hero, thus creating an Ashkenazic national epic, comparable to the Nibelungenlied and The Song of Roland.

In Der Ring des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner drew on the legends of Grimm for the sword Nothung, belonging to the hero Siegmund and later reforged by his son Siegfried and used by him to kill Fafner.

* Yamato Takeru no mikoto ( 武尊 ), demi-god and hero from legends

His recordings would later influence such legends as B. B.

The events of this period would later figure heavily in 16th century legends of the temple's patron saint Vajrapani, with the story being changed to claim a victory for the monks, rather than a defeat.

" Paine lays out a vision of, in Davidson and Scheick's words, " an age of intellectual freedom, when reason would triumph over superstition, when the natural liberties of humanity would supplant priestcraft and kingship, which were both secondary effects of politically managed foolish legends and religious superstitions.

Many urban legends depict horrific crimes, contaminated foods or other situations which would affect many people.

Common Turkic folklore holds a different, reverential light to the werewolf legends in that Turkic Central Asian shamans after performing long and arduous rites would voluntarily be able to transform into the humanoid " Kurtadam " ( literally meaning Wolfman ).

Some legends state that Virgil, fearing that he would die before he had properly revised the poem, gave instructions to friends ( including the current emperor, Augustus ) that the Aeneid should be burned upon his death, owing to its unfinished state and because he had come to dislike one of the sequences in Book VIII, in which Venus and Vulcan have sexual intercourse, for its nonconformity to Roman moral virtues.

Davidson says that " it would hardly be surprising if strange legends grew up about such women, who must have been kept apart from their kind due to their gruesome duties.

Dolphy's musical presence was hugely influential to a who's who of young jazz musicians who would become legends in their own right.

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.

It might be viewed as a parody of Le Morte d ' Arthur ( and other examples of the chivalric romance ), in which case the novel form would be the direct result of poking fun at a collection of heroic folk legends.

By using th comparative approach the Indo-Iranian, Avestan and Irish figures would show common features with the Roman historicised legends about Neptune.

In the 2008 episode " The Beginning Of The End " of the BBC television series Merlin, a prequel to and re-imagining of the Arthur legends, Mordred appears as a young Druid boy whom Merlin protects despite being warned that he would one day kill Arthur.

However, in 1076, he could not take Pozsony from King Salamon ( although, according to his legends, he would overcome his cousin in single combat ).

A frequent topos in the legends is that a defeated knight would, after revealing his name, ask the victor what his name was: if the victor turned out to be a much stronger and more famous knight ( e. g. one of Arthur's knights ) the loser actually saved face, because he was beaten by a knight already held to be stronger than him, and thus there was no shame in defeat.

So many of his peers of the time had that one huge mega-hit that would stamp them as eternal legends, and while Burke came close, he never found that one everlasting song.

A man like Akiba would naturally be the subject of many legends.

There are old legends, with no basis in fact, that House Martins would wall-up House Sparrows by closing the entrance of the mud nest with the intruder inside, or that they would gather en masse to kill a Sparrow.

The late Stephen Jay Gould offered a synopsis of the mainstream response to Velikovsky, writing, " Velikovsky is neither crank nor charlatan — although, to state my opinion and to quote one of my colleagues, he is at least gloriously wrong ... Velikovsky would rebuild the science of celestial mechanics to save the literal accuracy of ancient legends.

Among the wagoners were two young men who would later become legends of American history: Daniel Boone and Daniel Morgan.

While she would appear in a handful of films throughout the seventies, including The Children of Sanchez ( 1978 ), with the Mexican legends Anthony Quinn and Dolores del Río, Mendez truly came into her own in Mexican television starting with a small part in Muchacha italiana viene a casarse ( 1971 ) with Angelica María.