Local folklore relates a story about how Sun Quan's grandfather, Sun Zhong, was originally a melon farmer on the islet.

Local folklore identifies this as Vanora ( Guinevere ) being fed to wild beasts as punishment for her infidelity.

Local folklore provides varying accounts about the origins of the name “ Minonk .” One version states that he originally named the area after a street in Boston, MA, where he owned property.

Local folklore suggests that the name of the nearby Plentywood Creek, after which the city was named, comes from a search for firewood.

Local folklore states that it was named for its famous landmark, the Red House, a Civil War-era domicile remarkable for its strange, dark crimson coloring and reputed by many locals to be haunted.

Local folklore says that in the pioneer days, prior to the establishment of bridges, a ferry boat operator named Si ( Silas ) shuttled people across the water in that area.

Local folklore has it that when heavy snow storms hit the county, Wetherby does not get as much because the Weather Goes By.

Local folklore told of a great battle at Saxifield during the Heptarchy, re-enforced by the occasional discovery of apparently human bones and iron arrowheads.

Local folklore is provided for by the Legend of Evesham surrounding the life of Eof, an 8th century swineherd credited with the founding of the town, and St Egwin the Bishop of Worcester who founded the abbey and who whose feet had been fettered and the key thrown in the River Avon.

Local folklore refers to the volcano as Bulkang Magayon ( Bikol: ' Beautiful Volcano '), after the legendary heroine Daragang Magayon ( Bikol: ' Beautiful Lady ').

Local folklore states that Kanakadea means " where the earth meets the sky ," as Alfred's altitude is among the highest of the Allegany County peaks of the Allegheny Plateau and, coincidentally, water flows from Alfred into two watersheds.

Local folklore tells of a coffin found floating down the Thames in Victorian times which was traced back to West Norwood Cemetery.

Local folklore circulates stories that the Capital Mall Complex may be connected to the original Chinese underground tunnels that were used so Chinese immigrants could move goods to buildings, smuggle opium, and travel after curfew.

Local folklore from the area around the former K ' iche ' capital of Q ' umarkaj preserves the belief that he was buried at the small archaeological site of Atalaya, from Q ' umarkaj itself.

Local Aztec folklore possibly influenced the legend ; the goddess Cihuacoatl or Coatlicue was said to have appeared shortly prior to the invasion of Mexico by Hernán Cortés, weeping for her lost children, an omen of the fall of the Aztec empire.

Local folklore suggests it was King John who provided the name ; there is certainly evidence of King John granting the manor at Kingshill to Hugh de Gournay in 1213, although this same document states that the land was previously possessed by Geoffrey fitzPeter.

Local folklore says that he stood upon the site where the Balcón now stands, and said " This is the balcony of Europe ".

Local folklore suggests that beacons were lit on high ground around the village to warn of such raids and that attacks were fiercely resisted.

Local folklore depicted Bulger as a Robin Hood – style social bandit dedicated to protecting the neighborhood and its residents.

Local folklore asserted that this was punishment for the crimes committed by William when he created his New Forest ; a 17th century writer provides exquisite detail:

Local folklore claims that the town has a very unusual and unique feature, a stream running along either side of Fore Street, one stream eventually flows into the Bristol Channel and the other eventually reaches the English Channel.

Local folklore claims that the town has a very unusual and unique feature, a stream running along either side of Fore Street, one of which eventually flows into the Bristol Channel and the other eventually reaches the English Channel.

Local folklore suggests that the town was named after a publican called Frank Stone, who ran a hotel at the corner of the then Point Nepean Road ( now the Nepean Highway ) and Hastings Road ( now Davey Street ).

Local folklore first recorded in 1946 recounts the story that it is impossible for any human being to successfully count the number of stones at Coldrum.

Local folklore says that the village took its name from a nearby well that never dried up and at which a heron was always present.

Local folkfactlore has it that The New Line may be that same vein of natural literary ability referred to by John B Keane and the banner to Ballythefireside alludes to that.

It was celebrated in 1975, by the Yorkshire Ridings Society, initially in Beverley, as " protest movement against the Local Government re-organisation of 1974 ", The date alludes to the Battle of Minden, and also the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, for which a Yorkshire MP, William Wilberforce, had campaigned.

However some fellowship churches state the belief in " The Sovereign Autonomous Government Of The Local Church ", which both fit together as part of the overall authority structure.

Local legend attributes this name to its founding by a Clodius, but the antiquity of this belief is not known.

Local folklore about hyenas often gives them powers such as gender switching ( males and females are difficult to distinguish ), shape shifting, and human speech — all of which encourages the belief that the hyena may have contributed to the original myth of the crocotta.

Local historians indicate their belief that St Peter's Church has Saxon footings, and that the remaining plan reflects an earlier Saxon Church on the site.

Local belief is that water around each ghat has a special curative power.

Local belief holds that the pressure ridges are formed by the gods crossing the lake, travelling between the various buildings of Suwa Taisha.

Local myth claimed the town's name " Fredonia " was for the Republic of Fredonia movement of Mexican Texas in the 1820s by a group of Arkansas Cherokee Indians settled near Nacogdoches, Texas.

Local American Indians were enslaved to build the home.

Local legend has it that the local Indians advised Bell to locate the town at a certain bend of the Solomon river to protect the town from tornadoes.

Local Indians told him the whites were gathered farther north at “ the Little Lake ” ( Bear Lake ).

Derivatives include an uptempo version of Calypso music mixed with musical styles from the Indians in Trinidad and Tobago called Local ( Chutney ) into soca, and a hip-hop-influenced style called rapso both became popular in Trinidad and other islands.

Local Indians expelled the Spanish for 12 years following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 ; they returned in 1692 in the " bloodless " reoccupation of Santa Fe.

Local Abenaki Indians called the river Newichawannock, meaning " river with many falls ".

Local Navajo and Hopi Indians used the area for grazing and farming, and the Mormons initially understood that the Navajo had first choice to the water and land resources.

Local sports teams include the Royals ( Rugby Union ), Weston Creek Lions ( Australian rules football ), Weston Creek Indians ( Baseball ), Weston Creek Soccer Club, a men's and women's Lawn Bowls team and Weston Creek Cricket Club.

Local Yuma ( Quechan ) Indians are approached to help the gang wrest control of the ferry from its original owner, but Glanton's gang betrays the natives, using their presence and previously coordinated attack on the ferry as an excuse to seize the ferry's munitions and slaughter the Yuma.

Local mestizo and Spanish speaking workers in the town resented the presence of West Indians, who often held the best jobs, and because they spoke English were more able to get even service jobs in the US controlled company.

Local attractions include trinity falls, darkview falls, and rock carvings which are an archaeological find and are believed to have been left by Carib Indians.

Local Sons of Liberty, disguised as Indians, dumped the tea in the harbor in the Boston Tea Party.

Local Washoe Indians told them of a route through the mountains, but warned them not to proceed through the snow.