Mr. Turpin recalled how — "at the last possible moment" before his first book went to print — his writing partner called from the New York Public Library to say he had just managed to uncover an old photograph that debunked local "Realtor lore" attributing a house on Mendham-Bernardsville Road to Stanford White.
The details of his death remain uncertain, but according to several accounts, he was killed and eaten by the Hurons, his adoptive tribe, whose lore thereafter attributed a prolonged "curse" to his murder.
Jeff Crowe, a managing partner at Norwest, has also attributed interest in Jet to Lore's experience at Quidsi.
The Arizona senator has been assuring everyone that he is a Reaganite optimist who really does not possess the explosive temper attributed to him in Beltway lore.
The "voice" of the rock is the Jewish convert to Islam, Kab al-Ahbar, the historical figure in Muslim tradition to whom is attributed most of the Jerusalem lore in Muslim sources.
The following result can be certainly attributed to the mathematical folk lore (cf. for instance Lemma 6.1 in [13]).
Shen objected to the idea of his peers that ancient relics were products created by famous "sages" in lore or the ancient aristocratic class; Shen rightfully attributed the discovered handicrafts and vessels from ancient times as the work of artisans and commoners from previous eras.
In "The Curious Lore of Precious Stones," published in 1919, the gemologist George Frederick Kunz attributed the opal's jinxed reputation to a popular misreading of an episode in Sir Walter Scott's 1829 novel, "Anne of Geierstein," in which an opal's loss of color was associated with death.
In all cases, however, the goal is to reveal, as much as is humanly possible, the divinity; radical though it is in its laddered vision of God's attributes, the cabala (the word means "tradition" or "received lore") always strives to respect the contours of Orthodox Jewish practice.
Mr. Maraniss attributes some of the differences to the kind of family lore that is often exaggerated.
