One day in a bar, so the legend goes, someone put a beer stein with too much force on the monacle and broke it.

The motif of Faust's love for Helen of Troy goes back to the sources of the Faustian legend.

The Oxford Dictionary of Popes acknowledges that this legend was widely believed for centuries, even among Catholic circles, but declares that there is " no contemporary evidence for a female Pope at any of the dates suggested for her reign ," and goes on to say that " the known facts of the respective periods make it impossible to fit female Pope in ".

One legend concerning Asmodeus goes on to state that Solomon one day asked Asmodeus what could make demons powerful over man, and Asmodeus asked to be freed and given the ring so that he could demonstrate ; Solomon agreed but Asmodeus threw the ring into the sea and it was swallowed by a fish.

As the story goes, at the news of the Mongol approach, the whole town of Kitezh with all its inhabitants was submerged into a lake, where, as legend has it, it may be seen to this day.

Under Abbasid rule, the legend goes, the secret of papermaking was obtained from two Chinese prisoners from the Battle of Talas in 751, which led to the first paper mill in the Islamic world being founded in Samarkand.

As the legend goes, the Buckriders were a gang of ruthless robbers who made the Overmaas region ( the current Limburg ) an unsafe place to live from the 1730s to the 1780s.

In Cornwall, a similar legend prevails, however, the saying goes that the devil urinated on them.

As local legend goes, one Griffin Tipsword came to this part of Illinois and took up his abode with the Kickapoo Indians.

As local legend goes, one of the construction engineers who built the railroad through Cabool also worked on railroad construction in Afghanistan and thought this area of southern Texas County looked similar to the region of Kabul, Afghanistan.

As the legend goes there was a mix up at the post office-a missing comma.

Originally, the township was named Roulet, until ( so the legend goes ) the Post Office Department misspelled it.

The legend goes that Gould wanted to bring his railroad through Jefferson but the town leaders refused because they had the river traffic.

The legend goes that during the siege the people of Geraardsbergen threw some of their food which was left over the city wall.

As the legend goes, when meeting Marcel Duchamp Ginsberg kissed his shoe and Corso cut off his tie.

Hence, he used " we " as " God and I ...," or so the legend goes.

In 1588 Brixham watched Sir Francis Drake attacking the Spanish Armada after he had ( so the legend goes ) finished his game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe.

Herleva, legend goes, seeing the Duke on his ramparts above, raised her skirts perhaps a bit more than necessary in order to attract the Duke's eye.

The legend goes on to say that the Jews threw the pig's heart and the holy consecrated host into the river that ran through the city, and that in a few days a terrible epidemic developed among the pigs in the surrounding areas, many of which died.

The legend goes that he was so disgusted by the " primitive " Crucifix of Donatello in the Santa Croce church, that he made this one.

In this year ( so the legend goes ), the abbey messenger was robbed en route to delivering the order to harvest and the cutting was delayed for three weeks, time enough for the Botrytis to take hold.

In Qu's exile, so goes the legend, he supposedly produced some of the greatest early poetry in Chinese literature expressing his fervent love for his state and his deepest concern for its future.

The legend goes that Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( ca.

The buffalo goes back to a legend that the rules of Nan and Phrae were brothers, and met at a mountain to decide about the boundary between their lands.

The legend goes that the Chapel has appeared to be in flames, just before a high status death, but has later shown no damage from any such fire.

Korean nationalists have virulently reacted against China's application to UNESCO of Goguryeo tombs in Chinese territory: the absolute independence of Goguryeo is a central aspect of Korean identity, because according to Korean legend, it was comparatively independent from China and Japan, in contrast to subordinate states like the Joseon Dynasty and the Korean Empire.

Macbeth's life, like that of King Duncan I, had progressed far towards legend by the end of the 14th century, when John of Fordun and Andrew of Wyntoun wrote their histories.

Welsh legend states that when Wales is threatened again he will rise from his unknown resting place in order to lead the defence of Wales, quite like the legend of King Arthur.

But the legend of Cobb as a Southern white Protestant who despised blacks, Catholics and anyone who wasn't like him was fanned by sportswriter Al Stump, his first biographer, whose veracity has been called into question.

Jordanes relates the tribe's name to a river, though this is most likely a folk etymology or legend like his similar story about the Greuthung name.

Sometimes they hold the secret of ancient techniques and wisdom unknown to the Christians, like in the legend of San Martin Txiki, while their most outstanding feature is their strength.

Though mainstream audiences in the early sixties preferred a clean-cut style – epitomised by the acts that appeared on the Nine Network pop show Bandstand – there were a number of ' grungier ' guitar-oriented bands in major cities like Sydney and Melbourne, who were inspired by American and British instrumental and surf acts like Britain's The Shadows – who exerted an enormous influence on Australian and New Zealand music prior to the emergence of The Beatles – and American acts like guitar legend Dick Dale and The Surfaris.

Mefistofele is one of many pieces of classical music based on the Faust legend, and like many other composers, Boito used Goethe's version as his starting point.

At first, Prester John was imagined to reside in India ; tales of the Nestorian Christians ' evangelistic success there and of Thomas the Apostle's subcontinental travels as documented in works like the Acts of Thomas probably provided the first seeds of the legend.

In this sojourner belonging to a great family from the south, who came like a god, enriched the festival of the New Year with games and drama, possibly organized the collection of tribute on a southern pattern, and departed leaving behind him a legend of divine embodiment, one is tempted to recognize a far earlier appearance of that Lono of the Makahiki in whose name the Kumulipo chant was dedicated to Keawe's infant son and heir ".

In later stories in the 1602 universe ( much like the figure of legend ), when attempting to flee in the form of a white doe, she is shot by Master Norman Osborne and reverts back to human form in front of Peter before dying.

* Old wives ' tale, a wisdom much like an urban legend, supposedly passed down by old wives to a younger generation

More recent humaniform examples include the brooms from the legend of the sorcerer's apprentice derived from a tale by Lucian of Samosata in the 1st century AD, the Jewish legend of the golem created like Adam from clay, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Gunkel's observation that if, however, we consider figures like Abraham, Issac, and Jacob to be actual persons with no original mythic foundations, that does not at all mean that they are historical figures ... For even if, as may well be assumed, there was once a man call ' Abraham ,' everyone who knows the history of legends is sure that the legend is in no position at the distance of so many centuries to preserve a picture of the personal piety of Abraham.

It is an iron buckle which is forged to look like a withy binding, and legend has it that it was on St. Olav's horse's bridle when St. Olav shot the arrow that determined the location of the Våler church.

Machuchal was also very famous in Mexico, prompting Mexican legend Cantinflas to compliment him, saying that nobody in the world made him laugh like Machuchal did.

However, Anawrahta's youth, like much of early Pagan history, is still shrouded in legend, and should be treated as such.

There are approximately five principal varieties of coins produced by Stephen's mints, normally containing the legend, but one issue bears the legend which cannot be translated but is thought to have been constructed by the moneyers to look like the previous reign's, so they could disassociate themselves from the conflict and hedge their bets about who would win, while still providing the required number of new coins.

There is the undated issue which looks very like the earlier hammered coinage, with a crowned left-facing bust of the king with the denomination indicated by III behind his head, and the inscription, with the reverse showing a shield encircling the arms of England, Scotland, Ireland and France with the legend.

According to legend, the city was founded on seven hills ( like Rome ).