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There is a legend that Benedetto Gaetani was responsible for Celestine V's renunciation of the papacy by convincing him that no person on the earth could go through life without sin.
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There is a legend that as an infant, a swarm of bees settled on his face while he lay in his cradle, leaving behind a drop of honey.
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Some medieval chronicles and literary works derive the name of the city of Buda from him. There is an ancient legend, amongst the Székely people that says: " After the death of Attila, in the bloody Battle of Krimhilda, 3000 Hun warriors managed to escape, to settle in a place called " Csigle mezo " ( today Transylvania ) and they changed their name from Huns to Szekler ( Szekely ).
There is an ancient legend held in Mexican folklore that a cave in a mountain five miles south of Ojinaga, Mexico is possessed by devilish creatures who came from inside the earth.
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There was a legend of an Indian woman named Huldah who, despairing over her lost British lover, hurled herself from a high rock from Pelee Island.
There is a legend of Marco Polo importing pasta from China which originated with the Macaroni Journal, published by an association of food industries with the goal of promoting the use of pasta in the United States.
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There is a legend that the commentary on Nedarim, which is clearly not his, was actually composed by his daughters.
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There is a legend that Henry I of England met an elderly monk at Waltham Abbey, who was in fact a very old Harold.
There is nothing to fill the gap until history begins with the classical Greek historian, Herodotus, who mentions them extensively, except legend.
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There exists a legend that Moses split a tree trunk into twelve portions, and gave one portion to each tribe.
There is a legend that during the mid-17th century irregular military conflicts of rural France, the peasants of the Southern French town of Bayonne, having run out of powder and shot, rammed their long-bladed hunting knives into the muzzles of their primitive muskets to fashion impromptu spears and, by necessity, created an ancillary weapon.
There is also a legend which states that in 1086 Władysław was affected by a terrible pox, with abscesses that affected his nose and face.
There is also an urban legend that Wall Street investors autodefenestrated during the 1929 stock market crash.
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