The meaning of the legends is seldom intelligible: but some of the gems are amulets ; and the same may be the case with nearly all.

In the book of " Ainu life and legends " by author Kyōsuke Kindaichi ( published by the Japanese Tourist Board in 1942 ) contains the physical description of Ainu: Many have wavy hair, but some straight black hair.

Cannibalism features in the folklore and legends of many cultures and is most often attributed to evil characters or as extreme retribution for some wrong.

The opening paragraph names a collection of goddesses, some derived from Greek or Roman mythology, others from Celtic or Arthurian legends, affirming a belief that these various figures represent a single Great Mother:

The Darwin Awards books state that an attempt is made to disallow known urban legends from the awards, but some older " winners " have been ' grandfathered ' to keep their awards.

It is suggested that diprotodonts may have been an inspiration for the legends of the bunyip, as some Aboriginal tribes identify Diprotodon bones as those of " bunyips ".

According to these same legends, his wife was suddenly possessed by some unknown gods.

Most scholars reject the historicity of the later legends of King Arthur, which seem to be set in this period, but some such as John Morris see it as evidence behind which may lie a plausible grain of truth.

This theory has some basis in the fact that the Grail legends are a phenomenon of the Western church ( see below ).

While some Old Norse kennings are relatively transparent, many depend on a knowledge of specific myths or legends.

The Italian geologist Luigi Piccardi has proposed geological explanations for some ancient legends and myths.

Instead of dividing their traditional stories into myths, legends, and folktales, some cultures divide them into two categories, one that roughly corresponds to folktales, and one that combines myths and legends.

The information in the series is generally spurious and it also plays to some of the myths and legends rampant during the musician's lifetime.

In contrast, lost lands are islands or continents believed by some to have existed during prehistory, often associated with ancient myths and legends ; and vanishing islands are islands that are submerged during high tide.

The Seal of Solomon, in some legends known as the Ring of Aandaleeb, was a highly sought after symbol of power.

In several legends, different groups or individuals attempted to steal it or attain it in some manner.

Moreover, as Jan Brunvand pointed out antecedent legends including some of the motifs, themes and symbolism of these urtexts can readily be identified.

" In French, urban legends are usually called légendes urbaines ; the term légendes contemporaines is still preferable because " légendes urbaines " is an improper and meaningless verbatim translation, though used by some French sociologists or journalists.

Belief in such legends became so pervasive that in some areas it caused mass hysteria and even public executions of people believed to be vampires.

Skin and bone are used in some ceremonies, and the animal appears frequently in legends.

There are legends that some ships were deliberately lured into danger by a display of false lights.

Harald I of Norway is known to have had a body of Úlfhednar ( wolf coated ), which are mentioned in Vatnsdœla saga, Haraldskvæði, and the Völsunga saga resemble some werewolf legends.

Woodward suggested rabies as the origin of werewolf beliefs, claiming remarkable similarities between the symptoms of that disease and some of the legends.

`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.

An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.

He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

In some areas, the progress is slower than in others.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.

It will readily be seen that in this suggested network ( not materially different from some of the networks in vogue today ) greater emphasis on monitoring is implied than is usually put into practice.

Merely having a mental image of some sort is not the all-important consideration.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.