2 ) The concept that an `` American national folklore '' exists is itself probably another propagandistic legend.

However, despite the prevalence of the legend and the local assertion of its truth, no concrete evidence exists to substantiate the claim.

No documentary evidence exists to back up this legend, and it also requires the variety to later vanish from the Marseilles region without leaving any trace.

There exists a legend that Moses split a tree trunk into twelve portions, and gave one portion to each tribe.

There also exists a legend about a treasure, stolen from a nearby military fortification's salary, supposedly buried on a bluff somewhere in this area.

A legend exists that before the fight, Louis, only barely literate, wrote his name so large that there was no room for his last name " Barrow " – as a result becoming known as " Joe Louis " for the remainder of his boxing career.

Skepticism exists about the truthfulness of the story, suggesting that the ship may have never actually existed, but has become something of a legend.

In fact, it has been stated that considerable evidence exists to indicate that " Elijah was making exactly the same kind of whiskey that most of his contempararies were making " and that Craig's reputation as the inventor of bourbon is simply a " charming legend ".

This is only legend, while the ‘ A ’ exists it dates to circa 1100 and no other pieces of Charlemagne's alphabet have ever been found.

There is some dispute about the dangers, that the geography of the place is naturally risky with the rocks and fast moving currents — yet an Aboriginal legend exists giving it the context of a historic curse.

Campus legend dictates that a secret panel exists in the living room leading to a wine cellar, which was built during Prohibition.

Additionally, a Cheyenne legend exists about gold and silver being taken from the West and buried in mountains in the East, dating from roughly 1820.

Though he opposed Karaism, the Rabbinic commentator Abraham Ibn Ezra regularly quoted Karaite commentators, particularly Yefet ben ‘ Eli, to the degree that a legend exists among some Karaites that Ibn Ezra was ben ‘ Eli's student.

The legend also exists in Sweden, but it instead has a giant from Lund ( before 1658 in Denmark ), with the name Jätten Finn (" Finn the Giant ").

The legend about Fin also exists in the genuine Sweden ( that wasn't Denmark ).

A legend exists that the trap door under the tebáh ( bimah ) was used while the synagogue was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

According to legend the town was founded by King Peredurus around 270BC ; however the town as it exists today is of medieval origin

Local legend holds that a tunnel exists between the Abbey and the Hall to allow the escape of a priest.

It is unclear when the Hermitage of Nossa Senhora do Socorro was built, although a legend exists that the small chapel was constructed by a crew of a ship that escaped disaster in the high sea.

After Earth's natural resources were used up generations ago, mankind abandoned the planet ( which now exists in myth and legend as " Earth-That-Was "), and moved out into the stars.

A legend exists that the toponomic name of the region, developed from an incident where Saint Vincent of Saragossa appeared in a rocky cove near the mouth of the river.

Since little is said of her in the New Testament, and no verifiable biography exists, details on Pilate's wife are surmised from Christian tradition and legend.

In the culture of the ancient Mediterranean world in the context of which early Islam and its legend arose, there often did not exist the separation that exists for many societies in the modern period between fields of history and mythology, or the attempt to discern between objective truth and spiritual truths.

The strong possibility exists, based on the lack of concrete sources, that this story is a combination of ancient beliefs in the mystical properties of the ring finger, smatterings of legend, and shrewd marketing by the jewellery industry, which has in the past demonstrated a willingness to exploit myths and legends to increase ring sales.

According to ancient historians, who perhaps wanted to link Venetic origins to legend of Roman origins in Troy, the Veneti ( often called the Paleoveneti ) came from Paphlagonia in Anatolia at the time of the Fall of Troy ( 12th century BC ), led by prince Antenor, a comrade of Aeneas.

* Story of Bridalveil Fall, Pohono Indian legend.

Assyriologist George Smith ( 1840-1876 ) describes the seal as having two facing figures ( male and female ) seated on each side of a tree, holding out their hands to the fruit, while between their backs is a serpent, giving evidence that the Fall of man legend was known in early times of Babylonia.

In this way the tale links first to Saxon England of Alfred the Great, then to the Lombard Alboin of St. Benedict's time, the Baltic Sea in Old Norse days, Ireland at the time of the Tuatha Dé's coming ( 600 years after the Flood ), prehistoric North in the Ice Age, a ' Galdor story ' of Third Age Middle-earth, and finally the Fall of Gil-galad, before recounting the prime legend of the Downfall of Númenor / Atlantis and the Bending of the World.

Assyriologist George Smith ( 1840 – 1876 ) describes the seal as having two figures ( male and female ) on each side of a tree, holding out there hands to the fruit, while at the back of one is a serpent, giving evidence that the Fall of man legend was known in early times of Babylonia.

We learn of their origins mostly through legend, though The Fall of Angels provides a brief glimpse of the home universe for these beings.

The story of the town Darkness Falls, ( which is based on the town of Fall River, Massachusetts ) begins with the legend of a widow, Matilda Dixon, who was adored by all the town's children.

According to legend it was founded by refugees from the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.

This area is the setting of a popular legend among locals, " The Children's Fall.

The legend of Alaric's burial in the Buzita River comes from Jordanes.

His body was further desecrated following the Dissolution of the Monasteries and, according to legend, thrown into the River Soar.

According to Chinese legend, the Zhou lineage began with Emperor Ku and proceeded from him to Qi, Buku, Ju, and then Gongliu, before Gugong Danfu moved the Zhou clan from Bin ( 豳 or 邠 ) to an area in the Wei River valley, where they founded a town that became central to the Zhou clan's growing prosperity.

From the moment a legend is retold as fiction its authentic legendary qualities begin to fade and recede: in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving transformed a local Hudson River Valley legend into a literary anecdote with " Gothic " overtones, which actually tended to diminish its character as genuine legend.

He gives a vivid and accurate description of the last colony of the European Beaver in Wales on the River Teifi, but spoils it by repeating the legend that beavers castrate themselves to avoid danger.

It is named for the Yazoo River, whose name, legend has it, comes from an Indian word meaning " River of Death.

A legend says that Seminoles planted potatoes along what is now the Barron River during the Seminole Wars, in the vicinity of the present Everglades City.

The legend of the founding of St. Marie says that thirty-two families from the area of Montreal, Canada, mostly newlywed or single came up the St. Lawrence River in search of farmland on the prairie.

According to area legend, Soldier Creek ( which is an outlet of the Kansas River from which the town's name was derived ) was first named in the early 1850s when government surveyors were moving through the territory plotting out the 39th parallel and they found two army soldiers camped along the local creek.

Based on these resolves, a popular legend has it that the citizens held their own " tea party " on the Chester River, in an act of colonial defiance.

Originally called Wahatquenak by the local Lenni Lenape Native Americans, the Maurice River is said to be named for a local legend, in which a Dutch ship on the river, the Prince Maurice, was sunk by the local Native Americans in 1657.

The site of Murphy, along the Hiwassee River, was known to the Cherokee as Tlanusi-yi ( the Leech Place ), because of a legend about a giant leech named Tlanusi that lived in the river there.

According to legend, following a five day battle for rights to the hunting grounds in the Wind River Range, Chief Washakie of the Shoshone and Chief Big Robber of the Crow agreed to a duel, with the winner gaining the rights to the Wind River hunting grounds.

Ancient legend records that in 627 Paulinus, the first Bishop of York, preached here on the banks of the River Calder.

He had taken the name from Nicollet's book, in which the French explorer compared the ' Mahkato " or Blue Earth River, with all its tributaries, to the water nymphs and their uncle in the German legend of Undine.

According to a local legend, the town got its Irish name, Loch Garman, from a young man named Garman Garbh who was drowned on the mudflats at the mouth of the River Slaney by flood waters released by an enchantress.

Along the Makekal River on the western edge of Bukit Duabelas, people recount a legend of how their ancestors outsmarted these cunning yet dim-witted creatures during a hunting trip.

There is a long-standing local legend that there was a Roman settlement on the south bank of the River Wear on what is the site of the former Vaux Brewery, although no archaeological investigation has taken place.

This legend is re-enacted each year by the Cub and Brownie groups of Ottery St. Mary, with a specially constructed Pixies ' Parlour in the Town Square ( the original Pixie's Parlour can be found along the banks of the River Otter ).

In pursuit of the legend, Francisco Orellana and Gonzalo Pizarro departed from Quito in 1541 in an expedition towards the Amazon Basin, as a result of which Orellana became the first person known to have navigated the Amazon River along substantially its entire length.