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At the age of 60 he has returned to the theme in his new film Rita's Legends, in every respect a worthy follow-up to the earlier work.
Legends of living death seem perfectly suited to these spiritual miscarriages.
From Starcraft to League of Legends, the e-sports market has gone through a massive expansion over the last decade in a half.
The Arthurian Legends are a cycle of stories that has been shaped and passed down through over fourteen hundred years of English history.
Legends have it that if one stands in the circle and makes a wish, it would come true.
We also stopped off at Jersey's Living Legends Village which was spitting distance from our hotel.
Legends abound around the creation of these spectacular churches that are considered to be the eighth wonder of the world.
The programme will include an excursion to the archives of Acadia University, as well as a workshop on Silas Rand's Legends of the Micmac.
Favourite toons like Spongebob Squarepants, Rocko's Modern Life, Real Monsters, Rugrats, Say Please, Legends of the Hidden Temple and Kenan would all be available in Hindi.
Riot in particular has taken a direct role in the growth of League of Legends as an eSport.
The Phasm 8 Tour of the UK is being filmed by New Wave Legends, and a documentary is due out next year.
Naree Carton's No Legends finished in second and Andrew Burford's Tucana finished in third.
You can get your own coat of arms and enjoy music with The Rat Pack, The Bravo Boys and skiffle stars Paul Leegan and the Legends.
Legends Sports Bar will use Socket SoMo 650 handheld computer for tableside ordering of food and beverages.
Legends claim that it was passable on foot up to 1480 AD, until cyclones deepened the channel.
In 1998, the Football League, as part of its centenary season celebrations, included Charles on its list of 100 League Legends.
He has since been included in the Football League 100 Legends and was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame.
Legends of the land suggest that it may have extended 20 miles west of the present coast.
Archive programming and classical music recordings are sold under the brand BBC Legends.
In October 2012 007 Legends was released, which featured one mission from each of the Bond actors of the Eon Productions' series.
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O'Sullivan is based at the Legends Snooker Academy in Leytonstone, England, United Kingdom.
There are live tournaments for big games like League of Legends and Dota 2, both broadcast live on Twitch.
Titled 'Celebrating the Legends,' the concerts will feature popular playback singers Roop Kumar Rathod and Sunali Rathod.
Legends like river runner Buzz Holmstrom are the focus of great yarns destined to be regaled around campfires for decades to come.
Water birds and dryland species alike share this stretch of land, where loons, swans, Pygmy Nuthatches and Ptarmigan can be found along the Highway of Legends Scenic Byway.
In 2009, the race sponsors John Smith's launched a poll to determine five personalities to be inducted into the inaugural Grand National Legends initiative.
Legends grew up that Harold had not died at Hastings but instead fled England or that he later ended his life as a hermit at Chester or Canterbury.
Irish Legends Fish Go Deep are at large tonight as Greg and Shane take a trip cross-county to Waterford where tonight they play at The Venue in Tramore.
Their music careers began in New York in the late 1950s and were reborn in Florida in the late 1990s, when they got together as the Legends of Doo Wop.
Hotel workers Avinash Treebhoowoon, 29, and Sandip Moneea, 41, are accused of strangling the honeymooning beauty queen in her room at Legends Hotel in Mauritius.
The team includes NBA Legends Dave Bing, Clyde Drexler, Julius Erving, Jamal Mashburn, and Dominique Wilkins, who were selected for their success in business after basketball.
Included in Legends is Lang's account of his visit to the Ranee of Jhansi who was probably the most important woman in India in the nineteenth century.
In the preliterate days and among the peasants much later, folk songs, legends, poetry, jokes, and riddles were important artistic expressions.
Elders, by means of recitation of stories, tales, and legends, were also significant teachers.
Here were two football powers who wrote the book on heroics and football legends, rewriting it in a game and on a stage like this.
It seems as if every new soul singer is instantly compared to one or more of the legends of the past.
Despite legends of Scottish tightness, it was sold very cheaply for cash-in-hand and the promise of jobs for the boys.
The walk will include a talk on the history, legends and folk lore of the area.
While your legends may beg to differ, we are not mindless, ravening creatures.
One of the persistent legends that attaches to Saville, is that, like the author Douglas Adams, he loves the sound of deadlines whooshing past.
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The other development was the gathering of Haggadic legends and tales into comprehensive, systematic compendiums.
Oral history, early historical accounts, maps, legends, photos, illustrations, and biographies are interwoven as the woof of this tapestry.
Witness their enthusiasm for UFOs as opposed to scientific cosmology, for alchemy instead of chemistry, for urban legends instead of hard news.
These Four royal houses shall be responsible for one of the greatest legends ever told in my homeland of Spain.
Using these legends, he would come up with these radical theories of fabulous civilizations from remote past.
But what about the flood legends of the American Indians and the Australian Aborigines?
Celtic legends tell of the misty westward isles, the place of repose to which the soul is borne after death.
This article is based on a large number Talmudic legends, and on statements from the Zohar.
Local legends and some native historians trace their ancestry to the biblical figure Yafith, the son of Noah.
Isis looked long at the sarcophagus, if the legends were true the body of Osiris rested in the stone structure in front of her.
Welsh culture was based on an oral tradition of legends, myths, and folktales passed down from generation to generation.
It is difficult to distinguish authentic historical information from legends within the accounts given.
I have seen legends totter across stages, forget their lines, prove themselves incapable of holding a tune.
These decades of collecting and collating myths, legends and historical snippets are clearly reflected in breadth and depth of the book.
However, there is a strong oral tradition consisting of stories, legends, fables, poems, riddles, and songs.
Children were once told fairytales, myths, legends and fables because they had a meaning, a moral or a special psychological relevance.
Every culture has its own body of folklore, myths, legends, song, poetry, stories, and parables.
It is an interesting survey, and shows how creative people still continue to mine myths, legends and traditional culture for material.
To most people, the old myths and legends are quaint reminders of a bygone and superstitious age, and have nothing much to tell us anymore.
This was pretty much the starting point of the Arthurian legends with regard to the Holy Grail.
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His early interest in European legends resulted in a Master's Degree on the Grail legend.
The chapter ends by providing numerous excerpts from historical legends and folklore that mention the robin.
All the ethnic groups of Uganda have a rich oral tradition of tales, legends, stories, proverbs, and riddles.
Born in Huddersfield, the 45-year-old is the son of a draughtsman and a mother with a passion for historical myths and legends.
One of legends concerning Saint George is the famous dragon story, with which he is invariably portrayed.
Mikey Sheehy, one of Kerry's footballing legends, has eight All-Ireland medals after his exploits in the Green and Gold.
Captions or legends must be submitted with all photographs, drawings, and tables.
There were various poems, legends, saint's lives, chronicles and similar literature.
In the scenes from the Apocalypse or from Serbian myths and legends, drama and exaltation prevail.
Each of these rhythm and blues legends had the hall rocking to the sounds of the Sixties.
My dad had booked a special reunion concert by 80s rock legends, Dire Straits.
A larger roster of players, particularly an increase in the amount of legends, would've increased the number of dream matchups significantly.
All of us are at least somewhat familiar with the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
I don't believe the Lunarians made up any legends about these Giants. That would have been too much out of character.
According to ancient legends, 90 million sages lived, worshiped and meditated at this place.
Stories became legends and, ta-da, people make important financial and emotional decisions based on them eons later.
It takes little imagination to understand just why so many ancient legends abound in these parts.
Having secured two acting legends and a comic madcap, the rest of the casting fell into place.
Zidane is a masterful maestro in the midfield with astonishing moves and is truly a legend among legends.
Swift's disturbing satiric vision and eccentricities have given rise to countless myths and legends about his life.
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One of the most famous Azerbaijani legends is about an ancient tower, called Maiden's Tower.
Many companies are plagued by urban legends, scams, and hoaxes delivered by e-mail.
Then he argues that stories, ballads, and legends are not things of the past.
As of this modern age these acts of martyrdoms are regarded as legends but they are based on historical facts and foundation.
I have already pointed out that he definitely rejects the traditional legends of theomachies as derogatory to the divine dignity.
The most famous early bardic poets, Taliesin and Aneirin, wrote epic poems about Welsh events and legends around the seventh century.
It is where some of Australia's great outback legends were created, and where some met their match.
The Scottish baronial architectural style of the nineteenth century was an attempt to create myths and legends from nothing.
The book is a compilation of Biblical narrative, rabbinic legends, prayers, homilies and songs.
They didn't rate his display ahead of those legends but he was mentioned in their company.
The last animal legends highlight the crazy swings in Americans' sentiments toward their fellow creatures.
In addition, we also have written history and legends to help us sort of piece together the last 3,000 plus years of the Shih Tzu's history.
In place of the legends are a group of lesser-knowns who shoot low scores but haven't clicked with fans.
Most cultures had legends of vampires or shape-shifters who preyed on the living.
That tour became the stuff of legends when the guide walked us out the other end and stopped before a sheer cliff wall.
A street in Saltaire has been named after one of cricket's greatest legends and a Shipley hero.
Around him in his lifetime grew legends of wealth, miserliness, misogyny, and efficiency, some of which had a basis in truth.
You can talk about great novels, short stories, movies, or urban legends about the subject.
This work was badly needed on a road that leads to one of the most scenic areas in the parish and was the birthplace of many legends.
The Southern Hotel in Sligo has the absolute best in showbands and country legends over the Christmas season.
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The 40 minutes film tells a lot about the history and legends of Niagara and is really sightworthy.
The mummy is associated with the legends of Egypt, but archaeologists have excavated preserved human remains the world over.
At just 19, the actress has filled the shoes of Hollywood legends and reinterpreted the blonde bombshell for a new century.
The hill tribes have a strong oral tradition that consists of myths, legends, stories, and group knowledge.
Gold is the one metal that transcends fashion because of its many traditional associations with myths, legends, folklore and spirituality.
Why do I believe in an ancient book that some say is a book of legends, myths, fables, and ancient history?
Some of these legends are unprovable, but there is evidence of their settlement in Cranganore in 68 A.D, after further Roman attacks.
Bacher also spoke of local legends about the pink dolphins that raced along with the boat, botos as the natives called them.
But what about the flood legends of the Native Americans and the Australian Aborigines?
The depicted subjects are taken from nature or from Japanese legends and history.
The only thing I haven't mentioned yet is the talent of the up-and-coming hockey legends.
Submitted for your consideration are some of the stories that have become Internet legends and urban myths.
These and other such stories, known as urban legends, are the focus of the book written by Whatley and Henken.
A more obvious type of myth is that of urban legends, improbable stories of events happening to unknown people on an unspecified date.
From the Vaishnavas come the legends and mythology of Krishna, to whom are ascribed the popular Ras and Garba folk dances.
In the far right corner there was a bookshelf stuffed to the brim with books on history and folklore and legends.
Ni-Vanuatu appreciate oratory and storytelling and have large archives of oral tales, myths, and legends.
Tales of the Northmen, Tales of the Russians, and the legends of Siegfried and Dietrich followed.
Cameroonian folklore has many intriguing myths, legends, and proverbs from its varied cultural groups.
Rock legends are usually known for hemorrhaging money on cocaine or being glad-handed into harebrained oil pipeline investments.
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The sticky nature of these and so many other urban legends intrigued the authors.
The masks serve as both visual aids in the portrayal of Bali's courtly legends and as harnessers of invisible forces.
Ancient Celtic legends win out over oral traditions like these for two reasons.
Traditional beliefs and views are subverted as a searching look is directed at figures and heroines from our epics, myths and legends.
He wants to tickle the funny bone of the audience with either his histrionics or by mimicking the legends of Hindi cinema.
And on the 25th year of its existence, the Academy also plans to honour some living legends of Hindustani music.
And so, at the start of a new season, hopes are high that Elland Road can once more be home to legends.
And all the well-informed Greeks knew these Homeric legends, which were actually history, as well as being legends.
He knew those legends well, as well as he knew the legends of Roland and the twelve paladins, and he would be intrigued by the retelling.
The material about the Hopi is interesting, particularly a back-story account of the Hopi legends of the Spider Woman and the Boy.
They became instant legends, remembered as much for the classiness of their play as for the result.
According to one of many legends, Wickenburg named the Vulture Mine after the buzzards circling over his head as he struck pay dirt.
The folktales include stories about animals, fairy tales, fables with moral lessons, Buddhist legends, and stories about historical figures.
This lesson through gods and legends is a fable for adults regarding faith and truth in oneself.
Many legends have spoke on its great and fabled powers, saying that it has the ability to drop gold and prolong life, so on.
The origins of myths and legends are as varied as the immortal marvels they celebrate.
Some legends say these delicate creatures are the incarnation of the spirits, others argue that they are angels from heaven.
The Skeptic's Dictionary is a compendium of detailed information about oft-repeated hoaxes, legends and quackery.
The sheer reverence and admiration for these legends could be readily manipulated into fervent nationalist passion.
Luftwaffe history is replete with legends of indomitable German fighter pilots.
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Anyone can become a pop idol these days, but the number of genuine legends is shrinking and it is debatable who can fill their shoes.
Discussion ranges from monastic confraternities to miracle stories and the pious legends of saints.
It wasn't just because of the camaraderie of the legends, but because of the aesthetically pleasing physiques they built as well.
What legends, what quaint stories, what seemingly extravagant romances, its ivied stones, had they but tongues, could tell!
These psychobilly legends may be getting a bit of grey in their greased-up pompadours, but are just as psycho as ever.
Instead, pop culture, European legends and dramatic arts are clearly traceable.
The legends show the real coupon of the respective bonds, followed by the date of maturity.
More than 300 beers are available, ranging from European legends to exotic Pacific Rim beers to craft brews from the American South.
This leads us to another point in the importance of the legends and folklore in forming and shaping a nation's character.
As students of urban folklore know, legends are perpetuated for reasons other than simple credulity.
Sequences would build up into films, characters into legends and gameplay into classic puzzles.
Other ballads generally portray him as a victim and romantic hero, and embody the legends of his gentlemanly conduct and chivalrous deeds.
Other fountains drew their inspiration from various Greek legends, thus infusing a sense of mystery to every sight that one laid one's eyes on.
The March 1 ritual is connected to the legends of the aura of amulets used as protection from evil eyes.
Often in these legends, the golems take on a life of their own, and gain increasing power the longer they are animated.
It was a depiction of legends passed down, legends of despair and desolation.
Old Punic legends seemed to linger in the palm-fringed gardens below the palace wall.
But he also makes elaborately costumed and staged studio photos that are based on Chinese myths and legends.
As a result, he has given ordinary guys who share his love for the sport a chance to be gridiron legends.
Think of it as a nice time capsule of Canadian legends in embryo, but ultimately inconsequential.
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The Kiltimagh native joined legends of the entertainment industry with a life-size waxwork dummy of the music manager.
It was an essential task of the dramaturgist to arrange and synthesize many conflicting events or legends into a sequential plot.
The myths and legends of the Aboriginal people, including their accounts of the creation of the world, are known as the Dreamtime.
Early rodeo legends like Yakima Canutt and Jackson Sundown and hard-to-fork broncs like Steamboat were familiar fixtures in such rodeos, and so was western art.
Tales and legends dealt with the doings of kings, contests between knights and dragons, and the exploits of ancient robbers and bandits as well as with the lives of saints.
He led a nation secure in its past, with a strong oral tradition of myths and legends, but one somewhat behind the social change wrought in the rest of north Europe.
This area was packed with legends and stories surrounding plants.
Of such things are legends made, amongst obsessive record geeks, at least.
It is an honour to be able to portray such legends on the screen.
It will be a venue of legends and the big names are queuing up to appear.
Near the top there are more canyon views, but the sand paintings depicting Hopi legends, and the design of the building itself, have a way of commanding your attention.
And thanks to all of you who are really legends in your own right.
The young members of the audience were encouraged to blow whistles and wave light sticks as the cast brought those famous cartoon screen legends to life.
The book is so full of events, meanderings, digressions, legends, conversations, and adventures, that a patient reader will never find his interest exhausted.
For centuries the nomadic Tuaregs of the Sahara, warned off by legends of diabolical fumes and flames, have avoided camping in the dry lake beds around Timbuktu, Mall.
Similarly, the tie-in with South American legends and superstitions attempts to engage with a mythic archetype of monstrous evil, but this too is patchy and unconvincing.
Brunvand describes different approaches to contemporary legends, including the Freudian, the Fortean, the memetic, the linguistic, and the sociological.
As a child, I hungrily devoured the literature and legends of big cities.
Visions of exotic beauties like Nefertiti, legends of mummified pharaohs and the towering presence of the pyramids have made Egypt a fantasy place.
The hadada ibis is surrounded by many legends among African communities.
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Urban legends are apocryphal or wildly inaccurate stories that are passed on from person to person until they reach a point where they are accepted as truth.
Local legends invariably eulogize a small band of the faithful who arrive as torch-bearers of the faith in the hostile terrain and face the resistance of the infidel populace.
And like Lewis, she serves the useful purpose of noting that myths and legends and plain old garden variety cliches are all derived from some intrinsic truth.
Though vampire legends exist the world over, Romania and Bulgaria have born the brunt of the attention.
While some ancient sources claim that these positions led to his having been tried for impiety in Athens and his books burned, these stories may well have been later legends.
In fact, in Greece during the first centuries ad the term denoted a category of actors who recreated ancient legends on stage through dramatic mimes!
Don't you love urban legends, those outrageous stories everyone believes?
The first war room gave us the working metaphor for modern campaigns and a roster of politicos who themselves became legends.
He had a wonderful ability to retain old stories and legends and was a great source of information when it came to local history, folklore and genealogy.
He's a consummate politician, skilled at spinning his own legends.
The rich fairy lore of Ireland is the subject of many oral legends.
Even his mythological references came mostly from Greek and Gaelic legends.
It's a city packed full of historical monuments and relics, of myths and legends, which seem to come to life every time you walk through its century old streets.
Like all juicy urban legends this folk etymology is completely bogus.
Much of Sufi poetry, love legends included, is an allegorical statement against the established order and the bigotry of institutionalized religion.
The sagas, legends, myths and histories which have been passed on orally or in written documents by ancient peoples are sometimes called pseudohistory.
Contrary to the usual gig fodder of a support act and headliners, these legends of the indie scene have decided to do something different and head out on a joint tour.
You see, Mr. Jennings, the strength and power contained in that cell may hold the key to immortality, if I read my legends of lycanthropy correctly.
If we consider the stratagems of persuasive communication proposed by Pratkanis and Aronson, we can easily see how counteracting legends may be a difficult task.
Hence, in the sylvan surroundings of the campus, legends of Hindustani classical music, belonging to different Gharanas live in perfect harmony with the students.
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Each ethnic group has its own heroes and heroines, legends, and myths.
He whizzes through the kind of past American legends are made of, everything carefully documented and produced at the proper stage of the recitation.
Oral histories and legends abound, but how reliable are they?
After you have looked at the whole poster, visit the SAAO web-site where they tell us the full story of the legends of the San, the Sotho, the Nguni, the Tswana and so on.
The legends and sayings about her, locked into memorable shapes like any other conventionalised poetic utterance, did not necessarily adapt to her changing social role.
He was expected to be the sort of party animal that was so devastatingly portrayed in Less Than Zero, a novelist who rubbed shoulders with rock music legends.
Giants are the cornerstone of the myths, legends, and traditions of almost every culture on Earth.
A new book from Mallory Ortberg imagines what literary legends including King Lear and Jane Eyre would have texted.
By the 19th century, scholars had found Tristan legends spread across the Nordic world, from Denmark to the Faroe Islands.
It is a very important site for ancient oaks, wood pasture, invertebrates and fungi, as well as being linked to the legends of Robin Hood.
Ahead of their show, they told us about their experiences in the region, biggest pet peeves and meeting the legends of Iron Maiden themselves.
As with many ancient legends, the Bogeyman has seen a rekindled popularity in modern media, including media aimed at children.
Similar legends are also very common in Eastern Europe, as well as in Haiti and some countries in Asia.
Giants are the monsters of human appearance but prodigious size and strength common in the mythology and legends of many different cultures.
As an institution with such a long history, the university has developed a large number of myths and legends.
The highlight of the charity auction was a previously unseen 6ft, 36-stone statue of comic strip legends Lobey Dosser.
Some hagiographic legends state that his father was a king named Suddhodana, his mother queen Maya, and he was born in Lumbini gardens.
Mancunian legends James are one of the biggest bands to emerge from the city, with over 25 million album sales worldwide.
It's not an exaggeration to say that tonight's guest at Boombox is one of house music's living legends.
Ice dance legends Torvill and Dean are suing the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for pounds 170,000 over an alleged ad botch-up.
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In later legends, Alban's head rolled downhill after his execution, and a well sprang up where it stopped.
The traditional legends have offered a historicised narration of George's encounter with a dragon.
In the show, the curious Japanese figurine of folk tales and legends is brought to life in a Japanese puppet-style fantasy.
In the legends of Robin Hood, Nottingham Castle is the scene of the final showdown between the Sheriff and the hero outlaw.
The late screen legends Olivia de Havilland and Gloria Swanson were also Frownie fans.
Badgworthy Water is one of the small rivers running north to the coast and is associated with the Lorna Doone legends.
Later legends claimed that Harold did not die at Hastings, but escaped and became a hermit at Chester.
Meanwhile, the Vans Off The Wall stage will see a throwback to vintage ska-punk, with legends Spunge playing alongside headliners King Prawn.
The problem with turning human beings into legends is that they can become so mythologized that the true magnitude of their actions is lost.
The fool I am, the fool. A citizen of Chelm, an idiot, one of those characters my grandfather's legends are made of.
Like many founding legends, the Scottish version is larded with myth.
At that time, local writers started to collect and publish local tales and legends and wrote original works.
Several similar legends exist in Celtic mythology which refer to a lost land beneath the waves.
The struggles of this period have given rise to the legends of Uther Pendragon and King Arthur.
There are legends of a once fertile plain, the Cantre'r Gwaelod, now lost beneath the waves of Cardigan Bay.
There are, as with many places in the west of Britain, a number of legends associated with King Arthur surrounding these hills.
In 2003, the Finnish film The Grey Seals of the Baltic added facts to the legends.
Main characters in myths are usually gods, demigods or supernatural humans, while legends generally feature humans as their main characters.
In fact, many societies group their myths, legends and history together, considering myths to be true accounts of their remote past.
While myths are not the same as fables, legends, folktales, fairy tales, anecdotes, or fiction, the concepts may overlap.
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The Historia Brittonum has drawn attention because of its role in influencing the legends and myths surrounding King Arthur.
As these two locations are within a couple of miles of each other it is likely that the legends are related, or inspired by each other.
The city has a sporting Hall of Fame, opened in 2011 to honour sporting legends from the city.
For anyone who saw Charles play in the late 1950's and early 1960's when he was at his peak, the Welshman was the stuff of legends.
Though there are other myths as well, some Hawaiian legends say the honu were the first to guide the Polynesians to the Hawaiian Islands.
Many Cornish saints are commemorated also in Devon in legends, churches and placenames.
Little is recorded on the earliest inhabitants of the islands, though many legends exist.
Early Cretan history is replete with legends such as those of King Minos, Theseus and the Minotaur, passed on orally via poets such as Homer.
Skin and bone are used in some ceremonies, and the animal appears frequently in legends.
According to various legends, the tusks are formed either by the trails of mucus from the weeping girl or her long braids.
Tchepalyga suggests this may have formed the basis for legends of the great Deluge.
Rome's early myths and legends also have a dynamic relationship with Etruscan religion, less documented than that of the Greeks.
The Roman tradition is rich in historical myths, or legends, concerning the foundation and rise of the city.
It was also extremely popular, forming a cycle to which a number of local legends became attached.
On this occasion, visitors began to throw coins from the bridge into the fissure, a tradition based on European legends.
The name was not attached to Cornish legends of lost coastal lands until the reign of Elizabeth I of England, however.
Of these legends, one of the most prominent was that he created a talking brazen head which could answer any question.
The tripods were considered important artifacts, Chinese legends credit a Xia dynasty emperor with their construction.
Her wagon tour has been likened to several archeological wagon finds and legends of deities parading in wagons.
The stork is a main feature of Alsace and was the subject of many legends told to children.
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Many Polish legends are connected with the Vistula and the beginnings of Polish statehood.
Therefore, storytellers in England adapted legends of Charlemagne and his 12 Peers to the Arthurian tales.
By 1450 it had lost contact with Norway and Iceland and disappeared from all but a few Scandinavian legends.
Meanwhile, some legends about a Gothic state in Crimea existed in Europe throughout the Middle Ages.
Fabius Pictor, Cato the Elder wrote ab urbe condita, and the early history is filled with legends illustrating Roman virtues.
The poems in the second part narrate legends about Norse heroes and heroines, such as Sigurd, Brynhildr and Gunnar.
The Spice trade had brought great riches to the Abbasid Caliphate, and even inspired famous legends such as that of Sinbad the Sailor.
The wrecks of the Manila galleons are legends second only to the wrecks of treasure ships in the Caribbean.
It is a compendium of Maya stories and legends, aimed to preserve Maya traditions.
In Mazatec legends, the astrologer deity Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, who is also represented by Venus, bears a close relationship with Quetzalcoatl.
Some legends describe him as opposed to human sacrifice while others describe him practicing it.
The legends surrounding El Dorado changed over time, as it went from being a man, to a city, to a kingdom, and then finally an empire.
It is probable that this description prompted early explorers to misidentify the Baja California Peninsula as the island in these legends.
As an example the famous world map of 1569 is inscribed with over 5000 words in fifteen legends.
These legends reveal a deep respect for the polar bear, which is portrayed as both spiritually powerful and closely akin to humans.
Many epic heroes are recurring characters in the legends of their native culture.
The Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson retold the legends in the poetry volume Idylls of the King.
Some forms of traditional knowledge find expression in stories, legends, folklore, rituals, songs, and laws.
Many supernatural legends surround the history of alleged relics as they accompanied the spread of Buddhism and gave legitimacy to rulers.
Ferns figure in folklore, for example in legends about mythical flowers or seeds.
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It was popular and influential in the later revival of interest in the Arthurian legends.
If you are sucked in by random prank emails or urban legends, you can now log onto snopes.
Certain European legends state that if someone stares into a hellhound's eyes three times or more, that person will surely die.
In European legends, seeing a hellhound or hearing it howl may be an omen or even a cause of death.
There are legends of Black Shuck roaming the Anglian countryside since before Vikings.
Supernatural dogs in the legends are usually completely black, or white with red ears.
The beliefs, legends and stories are as diverse as the people of the Philippines.
In many Polynesian legends, ghosts were often actively involved in the affairs of the living.
Great yule logs were burned and people drank mead around the bonfires listening to minstrel-poets singing ancient legends.
Other legends involve culture heroes who performed great feats or embodied important values.
The hands and minds of many artists have indeed been inspired by Tolkien's legends.
There are many legends about Jonson's rivalry with Shakespeare, some of which may be true.
Being a champion athlete, does Coe's vote then go towards any of the legends like Pavo Nurmi or Carl Lewis?
Many legends have clustered around the decisive audience of Francis with the pope.
The Picts are often said to have practised matrilineal kingship succession on the basis of Irish legends and a statement in Bede's history.
The programme saw him unite with fellow British legends Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the adventurer, and John Simpson, the BBC world affairs editor.
Its aboriginal culture is also very rich which explains why hundreds of urban legends have been passed on through the centuries.
Because urban legends are false ideas that have gained broad acceptance as troth, it's worth studying them as ideas.
Truth, perspective, and context give way to urban legends, hyperbole, and hysteria.
The Earwig's Tail is a collection of stories meant to clarify the urban legends of the insect world.

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