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.

According to legend, the San Antonio Panzacola Chapel was built by the mother of a group of smugglers to fulfill a promise or to offer gratitude.

The legend says also that the Moorish leader Bezai Zaide had even converted to Christianity and became the first priest at the Chapel of Our Lady of Martyrs () that Afonso Henriques ordered to be built just a few days after the clash.

A legend tied to this small Chapel recounts that during a Turkish invasion, a young girl and her sisters were taking care of their family's sheep.

The latter cave-chapel, located in the Mensija suburb, is today known as the Chapel of the Annunciation Chapel and is associated with a popular medieval legend.

The truck or wood is from Saint Gall, who according to legend carried a wooden staff, while the cross is for the Gallus Chapel, from which the village derives its name.

The subject of rumor and legend for over a hundred years, the riddle of the carpenter's identity was claimed to have been solved in the late 1990s by Mary Jean Straw Cook, author of Loretto: The Sisters and Their Santa Fe Chapel ( 2002: Museum of New Mexico Press ).

Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.

Whether historically a fact or not, the legend has a certain symbolic value.

Later research has shown this part of the legend of the Re Galantuomo to be false.

The idea has also some backing in German legend, for example the Gesta Treverorum ( a 12th century German medieval chronicle ) makes Trebeta son of Ninus the founder of Trier.

The traditional legend has it that Byzas from Megara ( a town near Athens ), founded Byzantium in 657 BC, when he sailed northeast across the Aegean Sea.

They revelled in the legend that he was taken by Timur to Samarkand, and embellished it with a cast of characters to create an oriental fantasy that has maintained its appeal.

Manduessedum ( Mancetter ), near the modern town of Atherstone in Warwickshire, has also been suggested, as has ' The Rampart ' near Messing in Essex, according to legend.

Camelot has become a permanent fixture in interpretations of the Arthurian legend.

In German legend, dragon blood has the power to render invincible skin or armor bathed in it, as is the case with Siegfried's skin or Ortnit's armor.

" And thus was born a legend which has never entirely perished.

Although he has become something of a political legend, Donald would have abhorred any attempt to turn him into some kind of secular saint.

Apocryphal legend has it that in 1961, either Jack Liebowitz or Irwin Donenfeld of DC Comics ( then known as National Periodical Publications )

Although mythical elements are not so prominent in Exodus as in Genesis, the echoes of ancient legends are crucial to understanding the book's origins and purpose: for example, the story of the infant Moses's salvation from the Nile has its basis in an earlier legend of king Sargon, while the story of the parting of the Red Sea trades on Mesopotamian creation mythology.

One legend has said that during the conflict, El Cid killed an Aragonese knight in single combat, thereby receiving the honorific title Campeador.

This legend also has many other flaws ( it claims that Jingū was flown into the middle of the promised land and then conquered into Japan ) which have largely discredited the story among historians.

An urban legend has it that the phrase refers to an old English law under which a man could legally beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb ( though no such law ever existed ).

There has been much uncertainty over Rasputin's life and influence as accounts of his life have often been based on dubious memoirs, hearsay and legend.

The legend has it that while he was there, a monkey brought him honey to eat.

A 17th-century legend has it that Hedwig, while on a pilgrimage to Rome, stopped at Bad Zell in Austria, where she had healing waters spring up at a source which today still bears her name.

This, however, has not prevented Scott from making an important contribution to the noble-hero strand of the legend, too, because some subsequent motion picture treatments of the Robin Hood's adventures give Robin traits that are characteristic of Ivanhoe as well.

Urban legend has it that the film was pulled from circulation due to the similarity of its plot to the death of President Kennedy the following year, but Frankenheimer states in the Champlin book that it was pulled because of a legal battle between producer Sinatra and the studio over Sinatra's share of the profits.

A spurious legend has it that the invention of the game saved an ancient city in time of war, and its widespread popularity helped raise funds to build the Great Wall of China.

The historical basis for the King Arthur legend has long been debated by scholars.

In recent years the portrayal of Arthur as a real hero of the 5th century has also made its way into film versions of the Arthurian legend, most notably the TV series Arthur of the Britons