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| | Background on the Golem Legends |
 | | Legends proclaiming the Jewish "ritual murder" of Christian children or the profanation or desecration of holy wafers are celebrated in various European towns in such artistic forms as tapestries or stained glass church windows. | | | The blood libel legend is not only the basis of ongoing festivals, but it has also been memorialized in church decoration. | | | The Legends concerning the golem, especially in their later forms, served as a favorite literary subject, at first in German literature-of both Jews and non-Jews-in the 19th century, and afterward in modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature. |
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http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/golem/backgroundgolem.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Legends of the Saints |
| | In the usage of the Catholic Church and of the people, the legend plays the same part to-day as in the Middle Ages. | | | And if, in this legend of Mary, the Blessed Virgin put a ring on the hand of her betrothed under quite characteristic circumstances, that is nothing else than the Roman local legend of the betrothal of Venus, as it has been preserved by William of Malmesbury and the "Deutsche Kaiserchronik" of the twelfth century. | | | Simultaneously, the legends of the saints disappear from Protestantism, and it is only in the nineteenth century, after the brief appearance of Romanticism, that they again find entrance into official Protestantism in connexion with the attempts of Ferdinand Piper (d. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09128a.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Legend of Abgar |
| | The legend, according to these two works, runs as follows: Abgar, king of Edessa, afflicted with an incurable sickness, has heard the fame of the power and miracles of Jesus and writes to Him, praying Him to come and heal him. | | | This legend enjoyed great popularity, both in the East and in the West, during the Middle Ages: Our Lord's letter was copied on parchment, marble, and metal, and used as a talisman or an amulet. | | | It was a rude shock to those who believed the legend; they were more ready to attribute the fall of the city to God's anger against the inhabitants than to admit the failure of a safeguard which was no less trusted to at that time than in the past. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01042c.htm
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| | Legend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | What distinguishes legend from chronicle, however, is that legend applies a structure that reveals a moral "meaning" to events, which lifts them above the meaningless repetitions and constraints of average human lives and gives them a universality that makes them worth repeating. | | | Vlad the Impaler; the legend from which vampire mythology is said to derive; | | | Legend may be transmitted orally, passed on person-to-person, or, in the original sense, through written text. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend
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| | Legend Perfectionists |
| | This section is a dedicated religious sect is for all those who can't stand seeing their beloved Legend in any condition other than clean and pristine. | | | Come and visit Legend owners, started and lead by head cult leader Jim Trinh, who worship their Legends to make sure it's at its best. | | | Owning a Legend implies a lifelong commitment to keeping up the most extreme appearance when driven in public. |
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http://www.legend.org/owners/perfectionists
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| | Greek mythology - Wikipedia |
| | Greek mythology is the set of legends (see mythology) which come from the religion of ancient Hellenic (Greek) civilization (see Hellenic civilization). | | | In Greek mythology, the gods in the Greek pantheon are given human form, but are first and foremost personifications of the forces of the universe. | | | Men and women were much greater in those days, of course, though the Greeks did not see any wide gulf between their history and their mythology (see, for example, The Iliad and The Odyssey). |
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| | Cyberkids: Articles |
| | Some of the gods depicted in Egyptian legends had animal heads and human bodies, such as Amen-Re, the hawk-headed god. | | | Because of this legend, many Egyptian coffins show the wings of Isis wrapped around the coffin, so that Isis' wings may breathe life into the souls of the dead. | | | The legend of Isis and Osiris is an example of a legend about Egyptian royalty. |
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http://www.cyberkids.com/Issue1/Legend.html
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| | German Heroes |
| | Hagen was also a kinsman (uncle) of Burgundian kings and Kriemhild. | | | Hagen inflamed the situation, when Hagen killed Ortlieb, the son of Etzel and Kriemhild. | | | Hagen retaliated against the boy, by decapitating Etzel's son. |
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http://www.timelessmyths.com/norse/german.html
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| | Legend |
| | Pratt is cornered by the awkward situation and by Bartok's persistent efforts to convince him that he must take on Legend's identity. | | | Pratt has created Legend in his own image, and all the novels are written in the first person. | | | The irony is that while Pratt himself is something of a lost soul, he has created in Nicodemus Legend a romantic hero who embodies all the optimism and creative spirit of America in the 1870s. |
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http://rdanderson.com/legend/legend.htm
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| | Legend tripping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is necessary for the legend to propagate, first that the adolescent pilgrims must be able to get there; and also, that the odds are good that they will be alone when they arrive. | | | There is sometimes a ritual that must be performed at the site, the ritual is explained in the legend. | | | Legend tripping, in the folklore of the United States, is a name recently bestowed by folklorists and anthropologists on an adolescent rite of passage in which a usually furtive nocturnal pilgrimage is made to a site which is alleged to have been the scene of some tragic, horrific, and possibly supernatural event. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_tripping
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| | Golden Legend |
| | Golden Legend, a hagiology (the ``Aurea Legenda'') written by James de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, in the 13th century, translated and printed by Caxton in 1483, and partially paraphrased by Longfellow in a poem thus entitled. | | | Golden rose (R. Ch.), a gold or gilded rose blessed by the pope on the fourth Sunday in Lent, and sent to some church or person in recognition of special services rendered to the Holy See. | | | Hence: (c) That period in the history of a literature, etc., when it flourishes in its greatest purity or attains its greatest glory; as, the Elizabethan age has been considered the golden age of English literature. |
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http://dictionaries.cc/Golden_Legend
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| | Chinese dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In some Chinese legends, an emperor might be born with a birthmark in the shape of a dragon. | | | For example, one legend might tell the tale of a peasant born with a dragon birthmark who eventually overthrows the existing dynasty and founds a new one; another legend might tell of the prince in hiding from his enemies who is identified by his dragon birthmark. | | | The dragon is one of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac which is used to designate years in the Chinese calendar. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon
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| | Search Results for Agamemnon - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | In Greek legend, the son of Atreus, brother of Menelaus, and king of... | | | in Greek mythology, son of the mortal Peleus, king of the Myrmidons, and the Nereid, or sea nymph, Thetis. | | | in Greek mythology, son of Amyntor, king of Thessalian Hellas. |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=Agamemnon&submit=Find&source=MWTAB
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| | Chinese Astrology Snake |
| | Chinese Astrology Legend tells us, that more than five hundred years ago, the Holy Buddha invited all... | | | The Rooster is the strutting peacock of the Chinese Zodiac! | | | Products Chinese Green Rooster Year 2005 - 4702nd Chinese Year Green Rooster Year The foundation of Chinese Astrology is from Ying-Yang and Five Elements, which are Metal, Water, Wood, Fire and Earth... |
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http://www.myastrologynow.com/site15/ChineseAstrologySnake
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| | Homeric legend -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | According to Greek legend, Helen of Troy was the most beautiful woman in the world. | | | For the Greeks of the 7th century BC, however, these books were their history. | | | Trojan prince in Greek mythology, son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9274926?tocId=9274926
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| | Dietrich Legend |
| | Here, in the Dietrich Legend, there are not only tales about Dietrich, I have included the tales of Hildebrand, Waltharius (Walter), Gunther and Hagen. | | | Die Rabenschlacht ("The Battle of Ravenna") was written in the late 13th century. | | | While Heriricus ruled the people known as the Burgundians, and the king had sent his daughter Hiltgunt as hostage. |
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| | Legend tripping - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site |
| | It is necessary for the legend to propagate, first that the adolescent pilgrims must be able to get there; and also, that the odds are good that they will be alone when they arrive. | | | There is sometimes a ritual that must be performed at the site, the ritual is explained in the legend. | | | Legend tripping, in the folklore of the United States, is a name recently bestowed by folklorists and anthropologists on an adolescent rite of passage in which a usually furtive nocturnal pilgrimage is made to a site which is alleged to have been the scene of some tragic, horrific, and possibly supernatural event. |
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http://www.factbug.org/cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=441464
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| | Ridley Scott's LEGEND FAQ |
| | What books and articles have been published on LEGEND? | | | What did scriptwriter William Hjortsberg have to say about LEGEND? | | | Why are there different versions of LEGEND and how many exist? |
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| | legend sagittarius |
| | THE LEGEND : This is one of the 13 constellations of the Zodiac. | | | LEGEND Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius... | | | Legend holds that James Nolan "strolled" into is his infamous nickname in the hallowed halls of B.C. High School. |
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| | Agapius -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Saint Agapius was a (One who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion) martyr, who was killed at (An ancient seaport in northwestern Israel; an important Roman city in ancient Palestine) Caesarea in A.D. (additional info and facts about 306) 306. |
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| | Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of September 7 |
| | Saint Eustace was a priest of the diocese of Beauvais in Picardy. | | | Saint Acca outside the church; the site of his grave was lost during the Danish invasions. | | | Saint Madalberta is a member of a very holy family. |
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| | Hamlet (legend) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hamlet (legend) |
| | The chief authority for the legend of Hamlet is Saxo Grammaticus, who devotes to it parts of the third and fourth books of his Historia Danica (Gesta Danorum), completed at the beginning of the 13th century. | | | Hamlet (legend) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hamlet (legend). | | | His riddling speech has little more than an outward similarity to the words of Hamlet, who resembles him, however, in his disconcerting penetration into his enemies' plans. |
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http://www.encyclopedia-glossary.com/en/Hamlet-legend.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Literary or Profane Legends |
| | A legend of a surviving witness of the Crucifixion, who is represented as the victim of a curse, was certainly current in Jerusalem, and is repeatedly referred to in accounts of travels to the Holy Land. | | | An old Italian legend knows of a similar punishment inflicted on the soldier who struck Christ before the High Priest (John, xviii, 22), and later on this soldier was identified with Malchus whose ear was cut off by Peter. | | | LEGENDS OF CHARLEMAGNE: PARIS, Histoire poétique do Charlemagne (Paris, 1865; 2nd ed., 1905); LÉON GAUTIER, Les Epopées françaises, III (2nd ed., Paris, 1888-1897); GRÖBER in Grundriss der romanischen Philologie, II (Strasburg, 1902), 1, 461-469; 538-552; BECKER, Grundriss der altfranzösischen Literatur, I (Heidelberg, 1907), 62-92. |
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| | Saint Eustace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Eustace, also known as Eustachius or Eustathius, was a legendary Christian martyr who allegedly lived in the 2nd century AD. | | | Eustace became known as a patron saint of hunters, and also of anyone facing adversity; he was traditionally included among the Fourteen Holy Helpers. | | | Like Job, Eustace lamented but did not lose his faith. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Eustace_(legend)
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| | Legend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | What distinguishes legend from chronicle, however, is that legend applies a structure that reveals a moral "meaning" to events, which lifts them above the meaningless repetitions and constraints of average human lives and gives them a universality that makes them worth repeating. | | | Vlad the Impaler; the legend from which vampire mythology is said to derive; | | | Legend may be transmitted orally, passed on person-to-person, or, in the original sense, through written text. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend
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| | St. Jacobus |
| | In the Late Middle Ages, spiritual reading meant the Legend>. | | | Authoring the Legend> was only one element in Jacobus' de Voragine's busy life, which was spent against the backdrop of terminal conflict between the papacy and the imperial Hohenstaufen dynasty. | | | As a preacher and a composer of sermons, Jacobus probably intended his Legend> to be a source book for preachers, starting with his own brethren in the Dominican order. |
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| | FOAFTALE NEWS 53 |
| | Urban legends are primarily non-supernatural, secular narratives which are set in the real world. | | | Urban legends (alternatively described as contemporary, modern or belief, legends or myths) are short and highly mutable traditional narratives, or digests of narratives, which have no definitive texts, formulaic openings or closings, or artistically developed form, and so their traditional nature is not always immediately apparent. | | | While the rumors and legends associated with September 11th are numerous and varied, a remarkable percentage (I would estimate conservatively 60%) of the collected narratives from Canada, the US and the UK, focus on the theme of foreknowledge. |
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| | Religious Cults Associated with the Amazons: Chapter I: The Amazons in Greek Legend |
| | The points which should bear emphasis are these:--the persistent belief among the Greeks in the real existence of Amazons; the conception of them as unusually fierce warriors, and this in spite of various tendencies of thought destructive of such an idea; the habit of associating them with certain definite geographical centres. | | | This evidence as a whole seems to point, not to the plain at the mouth of the Thermodon as the traditional dwelling-place of the race, but to a centre much further west, namely, to that part of Asia Minor which borders on the Aegean. | | | It is only another way of saying that epic verse as a medium of narration had given place to prose. |
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| | Nibelungenlied |
| | The legend was also dramatized by Hans Sachs, the shoemaker poet of Nuremberg, and related in prose form in a chap book which still exists in prints of the eighteenth century. | | | Hagen was therefore originally a Frank and had no connection with the Burgundian kings, as the lack of alliteration also goes to show. | | | According to this view Hagen was originally the king, but later sinks to a subordinate position through the subsequent connection of the story with the Burgundians. |
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