Originating in the Palermo area, cannoli were historically prepared as a treat during Carnevale season, possibly as a fertility symbol ; one legend assigns their origin to the harem of Caltanissetta.

Due to her association with the legend of the Great Flood, where she sent down a dog holding rice grains in its tail after the flood, she is worshiped as a rice goddess.

The internal styles are also known as Wǔdāngquán, named for their association with the Taoist monasteries of Wudangshan range, Hubei Province in Chinese popular legend.

There is a legend of Marco Polo importing pasta from China which originated with the Macaroni Journal, published by an association of food industries with the goal of promoting the use of pasta in the United States.

Sherwood Forest is a Royal Forest in Nottinghamshire, England, that is famous through its historical association with the legend of Robin Hood.

The legend of Elffin's association with Taliesin is given at its fullest in the late medieval prose text Ystorya Taliesin, the earliest redaction of the tale known as Hanes Taliesin.

Paul's meteoric rise to power is greatly facilitated by his association with the Mahdi legend.

Although the town has embraced the legend to a point ( the city's website mentions the legend, and even features an alien on the initial page ), the cemetery association has refused all requests to exhume the alien's purported gravesite.

The association of the fish and dove is found at Hierapolis Bambyce ( Mabbog ), the great temple at which, according to one legend, was founded by Semiramis, where her statue was shown with a golden dove on her head.

Discussing the association Iphigenia's character makes between love and death, Romanian theater critic Radu Albala noted that it was a possible echo of Meşterul Manole legend, in which a builder of the Curtea de Argeş Monastery has to sacrifice his wife in exchange for permission to complete work.

The legend surrounding Scotland's association with the Saint Andrew's Cross was related by Walter Bower and George Buchanan, who claimed that the flag originated in a 9th century battle, where Óengus II led a combined force of Picts and Scots to victory over the Angles, led by Æthelstan.

The legend of Bucephalus grew in association with that of Alexander, beginning with the fiction that they were born simultaneously: some of the later versions of the Alexander Romance also synchronized the hour of their death.

The name " canopic " reflects the mistaken association by early Egyptologists with the Greek legend of Canopus.

According to legend, one of the first colonists of Ireland was Neimheidh, who landed in Cork Harbour over 1000 years BC He and his followers were said to have been wiped out in a plague, but the Great Island was known in Irish as Oilean Ard Neimheadh because of its association with him.

Basanoff has argued that the legend not only alludes to sex and fertility in its association with wildfig and goat but is in fact a summary of sort of all the qualities of Juno.

Because of the railway's association with the West of England, the Public Relations Officer, John Elliot suggested that members of the N15 class should be named after characters and places associated with the legend of King Arthur.

Alexander's association with the Avars gave origin to legend widespread in the area in the 19th century, according to which Imam Shamil, the future leader of Caucasian resistance to the Russian expansion, was his natural son.

That reputation — along with a liberal dose of mistaken identity — led to the association of Elizabeth Hatton with the urban legend of Bleeding Heart Yard.

His victory at Samarkand ( Battle of Qatwan ) against the Muslim Great Seljuk ruler Ahmad Sanjar, and his amicable relations with Nestorian Christianity, which flourished in the Kara-Khitan Khanate, led to his association with the legend of Prester John, a Christian king in the east who was " destined " to vanquish Islam.

The legend goes that the first mosque ever built in Multan was the Jamia Mosque which was constructed on the orders of General Mohammed Qasim, who conquered Multan in 712AD.

Popular legend has it that the two characters are actually based on two real persons who worked either for Osman I — the founder of the Ottoman dynasty — or for his successor Orhan I, in the construction of a palace or possibly a mosque at Bursa in the early 14th century.

According to legend, when the mosque was completed in 1579, Ferhad-Pasha had the masons locked inside this minaret, sentencing them to death so they could never make anything so beautiful, but one night they made wings and flew away.

A Turkish legend speaks about the origin of the construction of a large mosque in Bursa and its constructors among whom were two friends and storytellers known as Karagöz and Hadzivat.

According to the legend there was a grave, a mosque and the khan's palace near the spa.

The tradition which affirms that a mosque was built on this place during the Arab Siege of Constantinople ( 717 – 18 ) by Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik ( a commander and cousin of Caliph Umar II ) must be considered a legend, as the Arabs laid siege to the land walls of Constantinople on the southern part of the Golden Horn and never penetrated into the citadel of Galata ( Pera ) at the northern shore.

According to legend, Goharshād once inspected a mosque and a religious school ( madrasah ) in Herāt accompanied by two hundred female attendants, after it had been cleared of its students, all of whom were male.

According to a nineteenth century Khatri legend, the Khatris followed the military professoin until the time of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.

The Tanoli consider themselves descendants of one Amir Khan, a Barlas Mughal who, according to legend, arrived in the Tanawal Valley with his sons around 1500

According to the legendary account in the Kojiki, Emperor Jimmu would have been born on 13 February 711 BC ( the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar ), and died, again according to legend, on 11 March 585 BC ( both dates according to the lunisolar traditional Japanese calendar ).

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Depending on the version of the legend, the Jews in Prague were to be either expelled or killed under the rule of Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor.

According to a very common legend, Count Andrássy had a long lasting romance with Queen Elisabeth ( Sissy ), wife of Emperor and King Franz-Josef of Austria-Hungary, and fathered their only son, Archduke Rudolf.

Could this piece then have been commissioned as political spin, a subtle myth or legend to promote his right to be nominated Emperor?

Although Wenceslas was, during his lifetime, only a duke, Holy Roman Emperor Otto I posthumously " conferred on the regal dignity and title " and that is why, in the legend and song, he is referred to as a " king ".

Another legend of the grape variety's origin, based on the name Syrah, is that it was brought from Syracuse by the legions of Roman Emperor Probus sometime after AD 280.

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.

Welsh legend supports that this happened, with stories such as Breuddwyd Macsen Wledig ( English: The Dream of Emperor Maximus ), where he not only marries a wondrous British woman ( thus making British descendants probable ), but also gives her father sovereignty over Britain ( thus formally transferring authority from Rome back to the Britons themselves ).

Various emperors portrayed Sol Invictus on their official coinage, with a wide range of legends, only a few of which incorporated the epithet invictus, such as the legend, claiming the Unconquered Sun as a companion to the Emperor, used with particular frequency by Constantine.

In 431 / 434, while fighting in Africa under Aspar, Marcian was taken prisoner by the Vandals ; according to a later legend, he was brought before King Geiseric ( 428 – 477 ), who knew by an omen that Marcian was to be Emperor and was released on his oath never to take up arms against the Vandals.

Rhubarb has been used for medical purposes by the Chinese for thousands of years, and appears in The Divine Farmer's Herb-Root Classic, which legend attributes to the mythical Shen Nung, the Yan Emperor, but is thought to have been compiled about 2700 years ago.

According to legend, during the reign of the legendary Emperor Shun and Yu in China, in 2281 BC castration was passed into law as a punishment, which remained so until the reign of Gaozu ( 589 – 600 AD ).

In China, there is a legend that the discovery of the silkworm's silk was by an ancient empress Lei Zu, the wife of the Yellow Emperor and the daughter of XiLing-Shi.

According to legend, the relic was given to the cathedral by Charlemagne who received it as a gift from Emperor Constantine VI during a crusade to Jerusalem, however this legend was pure fiction ( Charlemagne never went to the Holy Land ) – probably invented in the 11th century to authenticate some relics at the Abbey of St Denis.

In the south-west corner of the castle is a cylindrical tower named Adrian's Tower from the popular legend that it was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

The Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor was established in Shaanxi Province to commemorate the ancestry legend.

Emperor Maximilian, ruler of the Second Mexican Empire from 1864 – 1867, minted the first coins with the legend " peso " on them.

This was not only the name of his maternal grandfather, Grand Duke Konstantin Romanov of Russia, but also the name of the " King who would reconquer Constantinople ", the future " Constantine XII, legitimate successor to the Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos ", according to popular legend.

Mogao Caves 8th-century mural depicting the pseudohistorical legend of Emperor Wu of Han worshipping " golden man " Buddha statues captured in 121 BCE.

In the Shinto religion, he became identified by legend as the Emperor Ōjin, son of Empress Consort Jingū, from the 3rd – 4th century AD.

The second legend on Qianlong's origins, more popular in northern China, stated that during a trip to the Mulan Hunting Ground ( 木蘭圍場 ) in Rehe Province, Yongzheng had an illegitimate affair with a palace maid and they conceived a son, who would become the Qianlong Emperor.

Later medieval legend told of a Coel, apparently derived from Coel Hen, who was the father of Saint Helena and the grandfather of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great.

The plot is loosely based on an urban legend which claimed that the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the youngest daughter of Nicholas II – the last Emperor of Russia – in fact survived the execution of her family, and thus takes various liberties with historical fact.