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 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.

According to a legend, the great gonfaloniere ( mayor ) Giovanni Baldesio of Cremona faced the emperor himself in a duel.

The latter sits in the center of Valle San Giovanni, and takes its name, Madonna della Neve ( Our Lady of Snow ), from a legend in which a church was to be erected on the spot where a summer snowfall was to occur.

* Don Giovanni, a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend of Don Juan

This legend appears later in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron and in the Cantos of Ezra Pound.

Some of the well known individuals who have become involved include former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former presidents of Chile Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet, actress Susan Sarandon, actors Jeremy Irons and Raul Bova, singers Céline Dion and Anggun, authors Isabelle Allende and Andrea Camilleri, musician Chucho Valdés and Olympic track-and-field legend Carl Lewis.

Leonidas da Silva with another Tricolor legend, Arthur Friedenreich

The dowry for the three virgins ( Gentile da Fabriano, c. 1425, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome ), the St. Nicholas legend.

* Nazaré ( Oeste Subregion ): Nossa Senhora da Nazaré ; see: the legend of Nazaré

According to legend, his mother breaks every bone and limb in his body after his birth and bathes him in Chinese Rubbing Alcohol ( 鐵打酒 dit da jow ) to make him practically invulnerable.

Additionally there is a very small chapel called Capela da Generosa which according to legend, was constructed in 1901 by the order of a generous female patron, in memory of Teodoro.

In 1519, a chapel was constructed in this parish to the invocation of Nossa Senhora da Natividade ( English: Our Lady of the Nativity ), and as legend describes it was built entirely from one cedar, which was transported by water to its site.

It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, set it in the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during the Carnaval.

On 29 July, 2012, playing against Flamengo, Fabiano scored two goals and thus became the 7th most prolific goalscorer of São Paulo History, outscoring the Brazilian legend Leônidas da Silva.

In the 17th century, according to legend, there was an apparition of Our Lady of Nazaré, and the estate became known as Granja da Nazaré.

Much of the research on Palestrina was done in the 19th century by Giuseppe Baini, who published a monograph in 1828 which made Palestrina famous again and reinforced the already existing legend that he was the " Saviour of Church Music " during the reforms of the Council of Trent.

In fact, the reforms proscribed to the cloisters, which included omitting the use of an organ, prohibiting professional musicians, and banishing polyphonic singing, were much more strict than any of the Council ’ s edicts or even those to be found in the Palestrina legend.

According to British legend ( see: Historia Brittonum ) the territory known later as Essex was ceded by the Britons to the Saxons following the infamous Brad y Cyllyll Hirion event which occurred ca.

Hannibal's feat in crossing the Alps with war elephants passed into European legend: detail of a fresco by Jacopo Ripanda, ca.

A persistent local legend is that Selma was named after Selma Gruenberg Lewis ( ca.

St. Isidore of Seville drew together the accumulated anecdotes of St. Simon in De Vita et Morte ; the fully developed aura of legend is presented in the Legenda Aurea ( ca 1260 ).

According to legend, Wan Hu ( possibly 萬虎 or 萬戶 ) ( d. ca.

One stanza in particular has received attention because it mentions King Arthur, which, if not an interpolation, would be the earliest known reference to that character, as outside of this poem, Welsh Arthurian legend is known to develop only from ca.

A vehicle by which the legend was disseminated and pilgrims drawn to the site was The Miracles of Our Lady of Rocamadour, written ca.

Bian Que ( Chinese: 扁鹊 ; Wade-Giles: Pien Ch ' üeh ; the characters of his name are also often pronounced Bian Qiao, Wade-Giles: Pien Ch ' iao ) was, according to legend, the earliest known Chinese physician ( ca.

In a legend related by Aelian ( ca.

Indirect evidence in Thucydides points towards a date ca 705 BC, that situates it halfway between history and legend.

According to legend the pirate Jean Lafitte ( ca.

The legend of Magdalena Moons and Francisco de Valdez grew out of the siege of 1574: painting by Simon Opzoomer, ca 1845.