Legend has it that for five great Gaelic families — the O ' Gradys, the O ' Neills, the Ó Briains, the Ó Conchobhairs, and the Caomhánachs — the lament would be sung by a fairy woman ; having foresight, she would sing the lament when a family member died, even if the person had died far away and news of their death had not yet come, so that the wailing of the banshee was the first warning the household had of the death.

Legend has it that it was here in 1558, while sitting under an oak tree in the Park, that she learned that she had become Queen following the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I.

Legend has it that he had the Koh-i-Noor positioned near a window so that Shah Jahan could see the Taj only by looking at its reflection in the stone.

Discussing the creation of Night of the Living Dead, Romero remarked, " I had written a short story, which I basically had ripped off from a Richard Matheson novel called I Am Legend.

Legend tells us that the long and arduous Trojan War, although nominally a Greek victory, brought anarchy, piracy, and ruin ; already before the Greek fleet set sail for Troy, the conflict had divided the gods as well, and this contributed to curses and acts of vengeance following many of the Greek heroes.

The cast agreed, Burt Lancaster commenting in the book Sinatra: An American Legend that " His fervour ( Sinatra ), his bitterness had something to do with the character of Maggio, but also with what he had gone through the last number of years.

Legend says that when the one year had passed, Ní Mháille and her followers locked themselves in Rockfleet Castle and Gráinne called out a window to Burke, " Richard Burke, I dismiss you.

In 1957, Loren's star had begun to rise in Hollywood, with the films Boy on a Dolphin ( her U. S. film debut ), Legend of the Lost with John Wayne, and The Pride and the Passion in which she starred opposite Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra.

Discussing the creation of Night of the Living Dead, Romero remarked, " I had written a short story, which I basically had ripped off from a Richard Matheson novel called I Am Legend.

He had committed to a heavy conducting schedule and to compose a cantata, The Golden Legend, for the triennial Leeds Music Festival in October 1886.

A story from Nevers, which is reproduced in the Golden Legend, states that one night Charlemagne dreamed he was about to be killed by a wild boar during a hunt, but was saved by the appearance of a child, who had promised to save the emperor if he would give him clothes to cover his nakedness.

Legend has it that " Ki-ka-ma-sung ," meaning " boiling water ," referring to a footrace held each fall by local Native Americans, who had to run to the river and back before the pot boiled.

Legend has it that he was so impressed with the structure that he had the architect, Postnik Yakovlev, blinded so that he could never design anything as beautiful again.

< center > The Chapel Royal at the time of James VII. Legend relates that in 1127, while King David I was hunting in the forests to the east of Edinburgh during the Feast of the Cross, he was thrown from his horse after it had been startled by a hart.

Medieval writers and works ( such as the Golden Legend, which erroneously has Nero as a witness to his suicide ) believed Seneca had been converted to the Christian faith by Saint Paul, and early humanists regarded his fatal bath as a kind of disguised baptism.

Legend holds that the football practice field had to be cleared of diamondback rattlesnakes on a regular basis, thus leading to the designation.

This may originate in Arthurian Legend where Myrddin, employed by Gwrtheyrn, had a vision of the red dragon ( representing the Britons ) and the white dragon ( representing the invading Saxons ) fighting beneath Dinas Emrys.

Local Legend has it that Johnson had come to Owsley County ill and in need of assistance.

Legend says that their father, Abd Manaf ibn Qusai, separated his conjoined sons with a sword and that some priests believed that the blood that had flowed between them signified wars between their progeny ( confrontations did occur between Banu al ' Abbas and Banu Ummaya ibn ' Abd Shams in the year 750 AH ).

Legend says that Dred Scott, a slave whose Supreme Court decision set back black rights by declaring that African-American slaves had no claim to freedom, may have been imprisoned in the courthouse jail.

Legend has it that, on his death, the albatrosses got together and sang a song ( their normal call ).

Legend has it that Saint Patrick's was the origin of the expression " chancing your arm " ( meaning to take a risk ), when Gerald Mór FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, cut a hole in a door there, still to be seen, and thrust his arm through it, in an effort to call a truce in the Butler – FitzGerald dispute with another Earl, James of Ormond, in 1492.

Legend has it that Thomastown was named after a local settler call Thomas who started a popular market garden in 1848.

In August 2004 it sold its call centre operation to Response Handling Ltd and in 2006 it acquired Your Communications and Legend Communications.

Legend has it that the KDF9 was developed as project KD9 ( Kidsgrove Development 9 ) and that the ' F ' in its designation was contributed by the then Chairman after a long and tedious discussion on what to name the machine at launch-" I don't care if you call it the .......".

Ali took offense to this, as he had in a previous fight with Ring Legend Floyd Patterson where Patterson chose to call Ali ' Clay.

Legend has it that on the eve of battle the highland chief would call out the clan ’ s best dancers, who would dance the sword dance.

On his final show, Simpson received phone call farewells from Toni Braxton, LL Cool J, Wyclef Jean, John Legend, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, and other musicians.

Legend says in those 13 years, he passed by his house three times without going in, which is a sign of his perseverance in his work.

Legend has it that his donkey wandered off during the morning of September 4, 1885 ; Kellogg found the animal at a large outcropping of galena, which became the site of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mines ; those mines led to the founding of Kellogg, a city where a local sign reads " This is the town founded by a jackass and inhabited by his descendants.

Legend holds that the Archangel Michael appeared atop the mausoleum, sheathing his sword as a sign of the end of the plague of 590, thus lending the castle its present name.

In The Legend of Luke, a song is sung about how " St. Ninian's " is a misnomer from a sign that originally read " This ain't Ninian's !," after a mouse named Ninian refused to help his wife build a house ; some of the lettering later wore off, leaving ironically the words " s ain't Ninian's ," although the church is mentioned as having a lady chapel.

Legend says that during the uprising, a star fell and was interpreted by Bidam's followers as a sign of the end of the queen's reign.

This, despite the fact that the military was actively pressuring Erzberger to sign as soon as possible, was pointed to for decades afterwards as evidence for the Stab-in-the-Back Legend, under which the surrender was an act by scheming Socialist politicians for personal gain that defied the German Army's will to fight, and which later helped to propel Adolf Hitler to power.

Legend has it that Hunter originally came to Birmingham planning to sign for Calthorpe FC, but after failing to locate them was persuaded to sign for Villa instead by George Ramsay.

Legend has it that St. Patrick struck the shield of Conall, son of King Niall of the Nine Hostages, with his crosier, called Bachall Isa ( the staff of Jesus ) inscribing thereon a sign of the cross and told him the same, and baptized him.

Legend would also later sign with WWF, but would not align with any members of Team RECK.

However, Kirby refused to sign on for the sequel City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold unless script changes were made.

Legend has it that it was once possible to see the Sagrada Familia through this window, which was being built simultaneously.

The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).

Bardot was featured in many other films along with notable actors such as Alain Delon ( Famous Love Affairs ; Spirits of the Dead ); Jean Gabin ( In Case of Adversity ); Sean Connery ( Shalako ); Jean Marais ( Royal Affairs in Versailles ; School for Love ); Lino Ventura ( Rum Runners ); Annie Girardot ( The Novices ); Claudia Cardinale ( The Legend of Frenchie King ); Jeanne Moreau ( Viva Maria!

In 2008, a colorized version was released by Legend Films.

In 2010, a retrospective on the movie entitled Citizen Wood: Making ‘ The Bride ,’ Unmaking the Legend was included in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume 19 DVD set.

Legend has it that there was a member of the British Royal Family onboard and that in gratitude for their bravery, King George III decreed that Caymanians should never be conscripted for war service and Parliament legislated that they should never be taxed.

* He played a bank robber named " Malcolm Y " in an unused plotline for the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which was eventually released straight-to-DVD as Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie.

Legend has it that Childe was in a party hunting on the moor when they were caught in some changeable weather.

Legend has it that α CVn was brighter than usual during the Restoration, as Charles II returned to England to take the throne.

Legend has it that the Brecbennoch, was carried to the Battle of Bannockburn ( 24 June 1314 ) by the vastly outnumbered Scots army and the intercession of Columba helped them to victory.

Eliade writes, " Legend, as was natural, bestowed upon him the attributes of St. George, famed for his victorious fight with the monster.

The song “ The Legend of Andrew McCrew ” was based on an article published in the New York Times.

Titled, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, the book was composed in an English language recreation of Old Norse alliterative verse.

In January 2003, a 95-year old Wray appeared at the 2003 Palm Beach International Film Festival to celebrate the Rick McKay documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There, where she was also honored with a " Legend in Film " award.

Wray was honored with a " Legend in Film " award at the 2003 Palm Beach International Film Festival.

Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Legend ( and Verdi's own " An Autobiographical Sketch " of 1879 ) has it that it was the words of the famous Va pensiero chorus of the Hebrew slaves that inspired him to write music again.

In the 2005 ITV programme The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend, a full-size replica of the House of Lords was built and destroyed with barrels of gunpowder.

Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales.

Such a tack was taken by psychologists Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, who used analytical psychology to interpret the Grail as a series of symbols in their book The Grail Legend.

The story of Barlaam and Josaphat was popular in the Middle Ages, appearing in such works as the Golden Legend, and a scene there involving three caskets eventually appeared, via Caxton's English translation of a Latin version, in Shakespeare's " Merchant of Venice ".

Legend has it that at the age of six while in bed with smallpox he was given a watch to amuse himself, spending hours listening to it and studying its moving parts.