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The account, which explains how the snake crushes and devours tigers, is full of popular misconceptions, but was much read at the time, and so gave rise to the myth of the anaconda of Ceylon.
A popular myth is that Polish cavalry armed with lances charged German tanks during the September 1939 campaign.
While in popular usage the term " myth " is often thought to refer to false or fanciful stories, creation myths are by definition those stories which a culture accepts as both a true and foundational account of their human identity.
For many years a popular myth has persisted that in the Japanese version of this film, Godzilla emerges as the winner.
In the 18th century, well after the term handfasting had passed out of usage, there arose a popular myth that it referred to a sort of " trial marriage.
A popular myth is that at the age of 12 Albéniz stowed away in a ship bound for Buenos Aires.
By extension, in popular legend the palace is associated with the myth of the Minotaur.
Many scholars in other fields use the term " myth " in somewhat different ways ; in a very broad sense, the word can refer to any traditional story or, in casual use, a popular misconception or imaginary entity.
Though there is a popular myth that one must be a 40 year old Jewish man, and learned in the Talmud before one is allowed to delve into Kabbalah, Chaim Vital says exactly the opposite in his introduction to Eitz Chaim.
* Prometheus Books, a publishing company for scientific, educational, and popular books, especially those relating to secular humanism or scientific skepticism, takes its name from the myth.
A popular myth is that QWERTY was designed to " slow down " typists though this is incorrect – it was designed to prevent jams while typing at speed, allowing typists to type faster.
The winners are awarded the William Webb Ellis Cup, named after William Webb Ellis, the Rugby School pupil who – according to a popular myth – invented rugby football by picking up the ball during a game.
In addition, this early Christian use of the term " myth " passed into popular usage.
In the book's introduction, Schwartz states that the word " myth ", as used in the book, " is not offered to mean something that is not true, as in the current popular usage ".
No language corresponding to the last sentence about " two stout monks " appears in the Rule, though it is a popular myth that it does, with several reputable publications ( and more than one church, and at least one Benedictine organization ) repeating and propagating the error.
Contrary to the popular myth, the libretto was approved by the Emperor, Joseph II, before any music was written by Mozart.
This myth was popular during the 1940s.
There is a popular myth in Gloucester that the famous children's rhyme, Humpty Dumpty, is about a battering ram used in the siege of Gloucester in 1643, during the English Civil War.
A popular myth comprehended by some Bengali authors about Jayadeva, the famous Sanskrit poet of Orissa ( then known as the Kalinga ) and author of Gita Govinda, was one of the Pancharatnas ( meaning 5 gems ) in the court of Lakshman Sen ( although this may be disputed by some ).
Henry of Huntingdon ( 12th century ) claimed that Harthacnut ordered for the dining tables of his court to be " laid four times a day with royal sumptuousness " which O ' Brien says is likely a popular myth.
She suspects that the tale started out as a popular myth, or intentional defamation presumably tailored by Emma of Normandy, the other wife of Cnut and rival to Ælfgifu.
Sky polarization was thought to be perceived by pigeons, which was assumed to be one of their aids in homing, but research indicates this is a popular myth.
Since the time of Edward I, popular myth suggested that the French planned to extinguish the English language, and as his grandfather had done, Edward III made the most of this scare.
The myth of Osiris was very important in ancient Egyptian religion and was popular among ordinary people.

popular and word
In popular usage, abjads often contain the word " alphabet " in their names, such as " Arabic alphabet " and " Phoenician alphabet ".
Developed into its present form in Italy, ( where it is called bocce, the plural of the Italian word boccia which means " bowl "), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia, North America, and South America ( where it is known as bochas ; bolas criollas in Venezuela, bocha ( the sport ) in Brazil ), initially among the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community.
Many popular synthesizers are not synthesizers in the classic definition of the word.
By the time Bramah's beer pumps became popular, the use of the word draught to mean the act of serving beer was well established and transferred easily to beer served via the hand pumps.
Umami, the Japanese word for delicious, is the least known in Western popular culture, but has a long tradition in Asian cuisine.
The Gry Puzzle is a popular puzzle that asks for the third English word, other than " angry " and " hungry ," that ends with the letters "- gry.
( Contrary to popular misuse, the word " colt " refers to a young male horse only ; " filly " is a young female.
Nicholson and Dunn both chronicled some of the popular, satirical origins of the word ( see below ).
One popular solution to the problem of the Ship of Theseus is to say that the meaning of " same " depends on what purpose the word is being used for.
In some countries, where the sport is very popular, it is known simply as " hockey "; however, the name ice hockey is used in countries in which the word hockey is generally reserved for another form of hockey, such as field hockey or street hockey.
However, this specialized connotation of the word " contagious " and " contagious disease " ( easy transmissibility ) is not always respected in popular use.
" The word individualism in this way has been used to denote a personality with a strong tendency towards self-creation and experimentation as opposed to tradition or popular mass opinions and behaviors
The website was popularized entirely by word of mouth, and quickly became a popular web destination.
The word netlist can be used in several different contexts, but perhaps the most popular is in the field of electronic design.
" It was pretty obvious that the word was getting very popular ", Holmstrom later remarked.
The word " sophistry " developed strong negative connotations in ancient Greece that continue today, but in ancient Greece sophists were nevertheless popular and well-paid professionals, widely respected for their abilities but also widely criticized for their excesses.
One of the oldest records of the word samba appeared in Pernambuco magazine's O Carapuceiro, dated February 1838, when Father Miguel Lopes Gama of Sacramento wrote against what he called the samba d ' almocreve – not referring to the future musical genre, but a kind of merriment ( dance drama ) popular for black people of that time.
The word semantics itself denotes a range of ideas, from the popular to the highly technical.
* Ron Collins — with rum ( popular with tourists in Cuba ), based on the Spanish word ron for " rum "
Contrary to popular belief, these tattoos do not spell out the " Elvish " ( Quenya or Sindarin ) word for nine ( Quenya nertë or Sindarin neder ) but instead simply the letters for the English word nine in tengwar.
Some verlan words, such as meuf, have become so commonplace that they have been included into the Petit Larousse and a doubly " verlanised " version was rendered necessary, so the singly verlanised meuf became feumeu ; similarly, the verlan word beur, derived from arabe, has become accepted into popular culture such that it has been re-verlanised to yield rebeu.

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