In time, the legend of the Rag Doll grew far and wide.

Doll Man was created by comics legend Will Eisner and first appeared in a four-page story entitled " Meet the Doll Man " in Feature Comics # 27.

One well known Terre Haute legend is the story of Stiffy Green, a stone bulldog that allegedly at one time guarded the mausoleum of florist John G. Heinl, the brother-in-law of Eugene V. Debs and the father of esteemed journalist Robert Debs Heinl, which is located in Highland Lawn Cemetery.

A small memorial for the football legend is located on the corner of Lake Linden Avenue and Tamarack Street and his grave is in nearby Lake View Cemetery.

According to legend, one of the Shawnee chiefs, Fish, died and was buried in the Shawnee Township Cemetery ( which is located in the heart of modern day Turner ).

The legend of the St Alexander to which the church of Bennekom was consecrated is based on remains from the Cemetery of the Jordani on the Salarian Way in Rome.

In 1972, he formed Kurtalan Ekspres, a legend by itself, the band that would accompany him until his death.

who in an Estonian legend carried rocks to her husband's grave that formed the Toompea hill.

These sacks contained unroasted coffee beans which as legend has it, formed the nucleus from which the Viennese coffee trade began.

According to common legend, the name " Bear " originated from a tavern located along the roadway from Wilmington to Dover, Delaware ( at the intersection now formed by US 40 and State Route 7 ), whose sign was decorated with the image of a large bear.

There is a local legend that the entire town of Climax Springs is formed over an underwater cave.

According to legend, the horse shoe-shaped Cove was formed by Odin's eight-legged flying horse, Sleipnir, when one of his hooves caught on the rocks as he flew overhead.

Carnival legend has it that admittance to the Mistick Krewe's ball was so highly sought-after that a group of uninvited ladies formed a flying wedge and attempted to force their way into the Comus ball.

This is how the lake was formed, according to the legend.

A legend of old Chertsey Church " was published by Albert Richard Smith in 1843, and formed a basis for the poem " Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight ".

According to Gōtsu legend, the star was formed by a meteor that had fallen many years ago.

There is a legend that Queen Margaret of Anjou took refuge after the battle in what is known as The Queen's Cave where she was accosted by a robber ; the legend formed the basis for an 18th century play by George Colman the Younger ; but it has been established that Queen Margaret had fled to France by the time the battle took place.

It was this later route that formed part of the " Varsity Line " from Oxford to Cambridge, and legend has it that the station was so called because the then isolation of the area meant that the only obvious name was that of the local landowner.

According to the legend, the master mason did not believe that the apprentice could perform the complicated task of carving the column without seeing the original which formed the inspiration for the design.

Roman legend held that the priestly college was originated by Romulus, who took the place of a dead son of his nurse Acca Laurentia, and formed the priesthood with the remaining eleven sons.

Alongside the likes of AC Milan legend Franco Baresi and Juventus FC's Antonio Cabrini and Gaetano Scirea, he formed the backbone of the national team's defence for much of the 1980s, making his debut on 14 April 1982 in a 0 – 1 friendly loss in East Germany, aged only 18 years and 3 months ; in the victorious World Cup run in Spain, he appeared in three games, including the full 180 minutes in the last two matches.

According to a common medieval legend, the Milky Way was formed from the dust raised by travelling pilgrims.

A legend says that the lake bed was formed when a giant ogre, Kopu-wai was burned while lying asleep.

Sinukuan is said to live at the White rock, a Lava dome possibly formed by the last eruption, where its glimmering properties were most likely to have inspired the legend.

Whilst perhaps not boasting the significant cultural contributions of neighbouring Burwood ( the suburb in which The Easybeats and AC / DC were formed and cricketing legend Don Bradman was married ), Strathfield has made a contribution to Australia's cultural landscape.

Local legend had it that the band formed after all four members attended a concert by Washington, D. C .- based band Velocity Girl ; whether that was true or not, Jale's early recordings resembled that band's work.

According to Maori legend, the peninsula was formed when the taniwha Whaitaitai beached as he tried to escape the confines of the harbour.

There is a legend that, of eight men who planned to meet for a card game, only seven showed up, and they formed the society.

Earlier versions of the legend tell of the lamb as a fruit, springing from a melon or gourd-like seed, perfectly formed as if born naturally.

The novel Coalescent by Stephen Baxter depicts Aurelianus as a general to Artorius, Briton and basis for the legend of King Arthur.

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

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.

Thus, freethinkers strive to build their opinions on the basis of facts, scientific inquiry, and logical principles, independent of any logical fallacies or intellectually limiting effects of authority, confirmation bias, cognitive bias, conventional wisdom, popular culture, prejudice, sectarianism, tradition, urban legend, and all other dogmas.

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

277 mentions the legend that it was Carmenta, the Cimmerian Sibyl, who altered fifteen letters of the Greek alphabet to become the Latin alphabet, which her son Evander introduced into Latium, supposedly 60 years before the Trojan War, but there is no historically sound basis to this tale ).

While at least one classic legend, the “ Death Car ”, has been shown to have some basis in fact, folklorists as such are interested in debunking these narratives only to the degree that establishing non-factuality warrants the assumption that there must be some other reason why the tales are told and believed.

Ferguson's sense of what was " right " became the basis for the Beiderbecke Romantic legend, which has traditionally emphasized the musician's Iowa roots, his often careless dress, his difficulty sight reading, the purity of his tone, his drinking, and his early death.

Hollywood legend has it that Frank Sinatra got the role in the movie because of his alleged Mafia connections, and that this was the basis for a similar subplot in The Godfather.

* Mulan ( 1998 film ) – Disney animated feature based on the legend of Mulan, and the basis of many derivative works.

George Coedès suggests the Cambodian myth is a basis for the legend of " Phra Daeng Nang Ai ", in which a woman who has lived many previous lives in the region is reincarnated as a daughter of Phraya Khom ( Thai for Cambodian ,) and causes the death of her companion in former lives who has been reincarnated as a prince of the Nagas.

In putting together the story he was heavily influenced by the folklore and landscape of the neighbouring Alderley Edge where he had grown up as a child, taking the local legend of " The Wizard Under the Hill " as a partial basis for the novel's plot.

The book is presented as a thesis that combines with Velikovsky's series Ages in Chaos, concluding through his revision of Egyptian history that the Greeks who wrote the tragedy of Oedipus may have penned it in likeness of the life and story of Akhnaton, because in the revision Akhnaton would have lived much closer to the time when the legend first surfaced in Greece, providing an historical basis for the story.

The Neo-Hittite Chimera from Carchemish, dated to 850 – 750 BC, which is now housed in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations no doubt served as a basis for the Greek legend.

In this legend, which is the basis for most Nanahuatl myths, there had been four creations.

Camp legend, the basis for many campfire stories, was a character named " Three-fingered Willie.

The French dramatist Edmond Rostand took the legend of Rudel and Hodierna as the basis for his 1895 verse drama La Princesse lointaine, but reassigned the female lead from Hodierna to her jilted daughter Melisende, played by Sarah Bernhardt.

Various writers have asserted that this chapter supports a historical basis for King Arthur and have tried to identify the twelve battles with historical feuds or locales ( see Sites and places associated with Arthurian legend ).

There is a scientific basis to the legend of St Swithun's day.

The white saltire set against a celestial blue background is said to have been adopted as the design of the flag of Scotland on the basis of this legend.

* The legend is the basis for the dark thriller " Hand of Glory " ( 2011 ).

This may have been misinterpreted by later readers as " Virgil made a mosquito ", and form the basis for the legend of Virgil's magic fly which killed all other flies it came across and thus preserved civic hygiene.

Consequently, he may have been the basis for the fictional emperor Lucius Tiberius of Arthurian legend, who sent envoys to former Roman provinces after a long period without an Imperial presence.

In 1998, the miscalled " Arthur stone " ( discovered on the Island ) raised hopes for some basis for the legend.