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 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.

He wanted to develop collaborations between soul singers and rock ' n ' roll, hoping to make an album with Ray Charles and gospel legend Mahalia Jackson.

The Carnival is known for a legend that explains some people hung a donkey at the tower bell, because the animal wanted to eat some grass which grew on the top of the tower.

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.

Another and more picturesque explanation is a legend, relating how Fujiwara no Kamatari stopped at Yuigahama on his way to today's Ibaraki Prefecture, where he wanted to pray at the Kashima Shrine for the fall of Soga no Iruka.

That final game was also Padre legend Tony Gwynn's last major league game, and Henderson had originally wanted to sit out so as not to detract from the occasion, but Gwynn insisted that Henderson play.

The ensuing hunt for clues to a cover up, that The Beatles presumably wanted to suppress ( and simultaneously publicise ), became one of the classic examples of an urban legend.

It seems that he wanted to make Alexander's life a legend — which it is today — through his book.

The community, according to the legend, really wanted to call itself " Bath " after the famous spa in England.

According to legend, he also wanted his rifle at his side and a jug of whiskey at his feet.

According to the most popular version of the legend, during the first Battle of Kosovo, Miloš made his way into the Ottoman camp pretending that he wanted to surrender, and at an opportune moment forced his way into the Sultan's tent and stabbed him to death.

According to legend, a young Blackfoot wanted to watch the buffalo plunge off the cliff from below, but was buried underneath the falling buffalo.

Anansi's enemies are based on an ancient legend ; the story, as told by Anansi, was that a clever Spider wanted to be able to tell stories, the " Sky Spirit " king of all the lands, agreed to give the spider what he wanted if he captured three trouble-makers: Onini the Python, Osebo the Leopard, and the Mmoboro Hornet.

It is often referred to as ' Queen Anne's Footstool ' because as legend has it, when Archer was designing the church he asked the Queen what she wanted it to look like.

* According to legend, in the 1990s Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics invited Bob Dylan to drop in to his Crouch Hill recording studio any time he wanted to.

This legend, first attested in the 20th century, says that the Bulgar Khan Asparukh wanted to send a message to Bulgars across the Danube.

Local legend has it that Napoleon originally even wanted to completely tear down the church.

While legend suggest it was the invention of the Yellow Emperor, who wanted to make the bamboo a musical instrument, others suggest that dizi was imported into China during the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC-220 AD ).

Knowing that a key role in the film was a grizzled Greco-Roman wrestling legend, director Jules Dassin saids he " didn't want to pick an actor and train him to be a wrestler -- I wanted to do the opposite.

One of the plays, also said to be lost, which was a subject of their correspondence, was Čechové na Řípu ( English: " Czechs on Říp "), a fictional account of an old Bohemian legend, which is here said to feature not only the legendary Forefather Czech, but also other characters as Forefather German, Forefather Jew and, in dialogue only, Forefather Gipsy, by which Cimrman wanted to honour all major nationalities living in Bohemia.

After the departure of Moores, Anfield legend Kenny Dalglish returned to the manager's position amid rumours that he had wanted to return in the mid-90s, but was frustrated by the hesitancy and inconsistency of the decision-makers at Liverpool.

This famous legend tells that Hagbard fell in love with Signy, the daughter of king Sigar, the nephew of king Siggeir ( of the Völsunga saga ), a love affair which ended in their deaths, when Sigar wanted to have Hagbard hanged.

55-67, the so-called Seven Brothers ' Houses ( Siebenbrüderhäuser ) are linked to a legend, in which a boatman wanted to build a house for each of his sons.

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