In Greek legend, for instance, it was Poseidon ( god of the sea ) who raised the storms which blew Odysseus ' craft off course on his return journey, and Japanese tradition holds that a god-sent wind saved them from Mongol invasion.

After his demise, but still during the siege of Valencia, legend holds that Jimena ordered that the corpse of El Cid be fitted with his armor and set atop his horse Babieca, to bolster the morale of his troops.

Conventional wisdom holds that Hamlet is too obviously connected to legend, and the name Hamnet was quite popular at the time.

Kyeser was infatuated with the Alexander romance | legend of Alexander the Great: here Alexander holds a rocket, the first depiction of one

Another popular theory holds that the Thera eruption is the source of the legend of Atlantis.

Urban legend holds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate was President de jure for a single day.

Popular legend holds that Louis said, " After me, the flood " (" Après moi, le déluge ").

One Catalonian legend holds it was named for Tarraho, eldest son of Tubal in c. 2407 BC ; another ( derived from Strabo and Megasthenes ) attributes the name to ' Tearcon the Ethiopian ', a 7th century BC pharaoh who supposedly campaigned in Spain.

Local legend holds that " anyone who sees one dies or is killed ".

One legend holds that the place was originally named " Shore's Ditch ", after Jane Shore, the mistress of Edward IV, who is supposed to have died or been buried in a ditch in the area.

Local legend holds that Pocahontas was named the county seat through an act of trickery.

One legend holds that the city is named after Mishawaka, daughter of Shawnee Chief Elkhart.

It is generally accepted that the town, formally incorporated on January 27, 1838, was named after Albany, New York, but a local legend holds that, during the vote to determine the location of the county seat, patrons of Dowell's tavern shouted " All for Benny!

A longstanding legend holds that Elmsford is the birthplace of the term " cocktail ".

Well before the Europeans came though, The Catawba Indians used the area as hunting grounds, and legend holds that in the area is an old Indian burial mound, which is yet to be discovered.

McKean local legend holds that a beast haunts Sterretania Road ( Pennsylvania Rt.

Local legend holds that the railroad once considered placing its machine shop functions in Mifflin, which would undoubtedly have led to the establishment of Mifflin as an important Pennsylvania industrial center.

A local legend holds that the ghost of Andrew Jackson occasionally appears in the vicinity of a cabin in a town park.

Local legend holds that Bonnie and Clyde either robbed the Ponder State Bank or attempted to rob it, only to discover it had gone broke the week before.

Local legend holds that the cemetery is haunted by the ghost of a young Indian woman by the name of Susie, who was tragically lynched around the year 1890 at Thorp, by persons unknown in the area.

Local legend holds that Shawnee chief Blue Jacket was in fact a young white hunter named Marmaduke Van Swearingen who was kidnapped in the area.

In ancient China, a legend about a poor but good man holds he was brought many cups of gold and wealth by this flower.

The legend holds that the creature's skin is ill-fitting, and covered with warts and other blemishes, and so it hides from plain sight and spends much of its time weeping.

Popular legend holds that the Ruppert loan forced Frazee to trade nearly every player of value to the Yankees for literally nothing in return, running the team into the ground.

This account now is thought by some historians to be mostly legendary, although essentially the underlying story of a rebelling mercenary force may be accurate, and the date for the founding of the kingdom of Kent is thought to be approximately the middle of the fifth-century, in agreement with the legend.

The city was thought to be legend until 2001, when it was rediscovered in the Helike Delta.

Very old bricks that wash up on Pinney's Beach after storms may have contributed to this legend of a sunken town ; however these bricks are thought to be dumped ballast from 17th and 18th century sailing ships.

The origin of the practice is uncertain, but it is quite likely that it was maintained because of widespread belief in the Joan legend, and it was thought genuinely to date back to that period.

According to legend, his last words as he was being crushed were " More weight ", and he was thought to be dead as the weight was applied.

This legend is generally thought by scholars to indicate their strict connection with Jupiter.

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.

The legend that Joseph of Arimathea retrieved certain holy relics was introduced by the French poet Robert de Boron in his 13th-century version of the grail story, thought to have been a trilogy though only fragments of the later books survive today.

The fact that, in little more than a month, Pope Clement V died in torment of the loathsome disease thought to be lupus, and that in eight months Philip IV of France, at the early age of forty-six, perished by an accident while hunting, necessarily gave rise to the legend that de Molay had cited them before the tribunal of God.

This legend also incorporates the golden staff, thought to have been given to Manco Cápac by his father.

The house was once thought to have been an 18th-century tavern run by “ Tories ” and confiscated during the Revolution but this legend has since been proven to be untrue.

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.

Former Pittsburgh Penguins star Mario Lemieux, as well as current Penguins stars Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Sergei Gonchar of the Ottawa Senators, and retired Pittsburgh Steeler legend Franco Harris live in Sewickley ( Lynn Swann is often thought to be a Sewickley resident, but he actually lives in the neighboring borough of Sewickley Heights ).

* Urban legend, a modern folk tale consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them

An urban legend says that art director T. M. Clelland mocked up the cover of the first issue with the $ 1 price because nobody had yet decided how much to charge ; the magazine was printed before anyone realized it, and when people saw it for sale, they thought that the magazine must really have worthwhile content.

After hearing the legend of the Black Shuck, a ghostly black dog, he is thought to have been inspired to write the classic novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.

It was of the greatest importance for the history of German thought that, by systematically studying the French Revolution, a Rhenish Liberal attempted to overturn the influence which the revolutionary legend, expounded by French writers, had exerted over the German mind ; and the book played an essential part in the influences which led to the formation of a National Liberal school of thought.

Tradition suggests that St Monenna founded a chapel here, as she is said to have done at Edinburgh, although it is now thought that the legend of Monenna results from a later confusion of early Christian figures, including Modwenna and Moninne.

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 a legend that William Pitt the Younger thought of her ; the somewhat notorious lover of Julie de Lespinasse, Guibert, a cold-hearted coxcomb of some talent, certainly paid her addresses.

According to legend, his last words as he was being crushed were " More weight ", and he was thought to be dead as the weight was applied.