Some controversy exists over the accuracy of these legends and the prevalence of actual cannibalism in the culture.

Some medieval legends elaborated upon the lives of Christian figures such as Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the saints.

Some of the films are based on legends such as Atlantis, and on literary works such as Journey to the West and Arabian Nights.

Some etymologies are part of urban legends, and seem to respond to a general taste for the surprising, counterintuitive and even scandalous.

Some urban legends have passed through the years with only minor changes to suit regional variations.

Some urban legends are morality tales that depict someone, usually a child, acting in a disagreeable manner, only to wind up in trouble, hurt, or dead.

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.

Some early legends of the existence of " speaking heads " involved Gerbert of Aurillac ( d. 1003 AD ), Albertus Magnus ( 1198 – 1280 ), and Roger Bacon ( 1214 – 1294 ).

Some legends include flight, invisibility, shapeshifting, the ability to " split " into multiple bodies, the summoning of animals, and control over the five classical elements.

* Some urban legends and rumors with a probable conscious attempt to deceive

Some legends of the Poles, the Picts, the Gaels, the Hungarians ( in particular, the Jassics ), the Serbs and the Croats, among others, also include mention of Scythian origins.

Some mediæval legends have anachronistically identified him with Paul of Narbonne.

Some legends say that Genghis Khan was castrated by a Tangut princess using a knife, who wanted revenge against his treatment of the Tanguts and to stop him from raping her.

Sunken cities: Some legends of the coast and lakes of Wales

Some scholars have identified components of the legend of the Eternal Jew in Teutonic legends of the Eternal Hunter, some features of which are derived from Wotan mythology.

Some stories from the Popol Vuh continued to be told by modern Maya as folk legends ; some stories recorded by anthropologists in the 20th century may preserve portions of the ancient tales in greater detail than the Ximénez manuscript.

Some legends say that Tāne made the first man, named Tiki.

* Some of the legends about Hereward were incorporated into later legends about Robin Hood.

Some of the better-known legends are recounted here.

Some have claimed that her legends were created so that she could be worshiped as a goddess to further solidify her reign and power, but this is not borne out by the Assyrian documents of the time.

Some of the best known legends are: Rozafa, Besa e Kostandinit, Gjergj Elez Alia, Ymer Agë Ulqini, and Cikli i Kreshnikëve.

Some elements found in the ' Joyce legends ' appeared in a footnote about Joyce family traditions in James Hardiman's History of Galway ( 1820 ).

Some legends state that she steals cattle from farms.

Some more recent studies have used the word anthophyte to describe a group which includes the angiosperms and a variety of fossils ( glossopterids, Pentoxylon, Bennettitales, and Caytonia ), but not the Gnetales.

Some Buddhist scholars assert words are inadequate to describe the goal of the Buddhist path, but concerning the usefulness of words in the path itself, schools differ radically.

Some other American colleges later adopted the word to describe individual fields at their own institutions, but " campus " did not yet describe the whole university property.

Some writers of the " realist " strain of modern Arthurian fiction have attempted a more sensible Camelot ; inspired by Alcock's Cadbury-Camelot excavation, writers Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mary Stewart, and Catherine Christian place their Camelots in that city and describe it accordingly.

Some observers describe the figure as sitting in a traditional cross-legged yoga pose with its hands resting on its knees.

Some would rather describe knowledge as a system of justified true propositions, and others as a system of justified true sentences.

Some of the Syriac terms that Ephrem used to describe his community were later used to describe monastic communities, but the assertion that he was monk is anachronistic.

Some exact solutions describe gravitational waves without any approximation, e. g., a wave train traveling through empty space or so-called Gowdy universes, varieties of an expanding cosmos filled with gravitational waves.

Some contemporary texts still describe Ebbinghaus as a philosopher rather than a psychologist and he had also spent his life as a professor of philosophy.

Some believe that the modern movement of anarcho-capitalism is the result of simply removing the labor theory of value from ideas of the 19th century American individualist anarchists: " Their successors today, such as Murray Rothbard, having abandoned the labor theory of value, describe themselves as anarcho-capitalists.

Some writers, such as Edward Said, use the term more broadly to describe any system of domination and subordination organized with an imperial center and a periphery.

Some modern writers describe Justus as one of the original missionaries who arrived with Augustine in 597, but Bede believed that Justus came in the second group.

) Some sightings describe the onset of a V-shaped wake, as if there were something underwater.

Some English-speaking anarchists even describe themselves as Autonomists.

Some books ( guidebooks in particular ) suggest that mazes on cathedral floors originated in the medieval period as alternatives to pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but the earliest attested use of the phrase " chemin de Jerusalem " ( path to Jerusalem ) dates to the late 18th century when it was used to describe mazes at Reims and Saint-Omer.

Some premillennialists, while accepting many of the basic beliefs behind the series, describe problems with specific prophetical teachings in the Left Behind books.

Some describe it as containing a fourth order, Huales, separating the family Huaceae into its own order, separate from Oxalidales.

Some traditions, such as those of Boha Village, describe it as a spirit rather than a flesh and blood creature.

* Some scholars hold that the Mishnah and Talmud have been extensively shaped by later editorial redaction, but that it contains sources which we can identify and describe with some level of reliability.

Some songs were written for the gods but many were written to describe important events.

Some of the Aztec stories about Moctezuma describe him as being fearful of the Spanish newcomers, and some sources, such as the Florentine codex, comment that the Aztecs believed the Spaniards to be gods and Cortés to be the returned god Quetzalcoatl.