The word "Yucatán" originates, legend has it, when the Conquistadors asked the Mayans what they called their land.
And I think it is: later, Morozov blames "internet culture" for the "persistence of many urban myths," a profoundly weird idea, given that scholars of urban myths such as Jan Brunvand have found that many of today's urban legends originate in the middle ages and have proven amply fecund without the need for the internet as a breeding medium.
If it sounds odd to have a German hero based in Verona, the legends originate from the time German tribes overran the Western Roman Empire and became entangled in the politics of Byzantium.
Several legends originated at Georgia Tech.
Sep. 19, 2018, 2 31 p.m. LeBron James of the Lakers is teaming with Ryan Coogler of "Black Panther" on "Space Jam 2," confirming a rumor that the basketball star will take on the role originated by sports legend Michael Jordan in the original 1996 movie.
Historian Malcolm Archibald agrees the legend originates from the days Norsemen had North African slaves, but speculates that the myth may have originated with the Tuareg people of Saharan Africa, who were known as the "blue men of the desert".
Originating in popular legend, he was first given literary personality in the tragic drama El burlador de Sevilla (1630; "The Seducer of Seville," translated in The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest), attributed to the Spanish dramatist Tirso de Molina.
In his own cult, Aravan is also known as Kuttantavar, originating from the legend of Kuttantavar killing the demon Kuttacuran.
Patricia Morison, who is celebrating her 100th birthday on March 19, appeared in movies with such legends as Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, originated the role of the ultimate diva in the 1948 Cole Porter Broadway musical "Kiss Me, Kate" and had a memorable encounter with Yul Brynner when she starred with him on stage in "The King and I".
Dybbuk legends seem to have originated with the Cabalists, a group of medieval Jewish scholars who rejected rationalistic interpretations of Scripture and attempted to approach God through mysticism and magic.
Very often, when it comes to the myths and rumors that make up the basis for legends about Star Wars, the legends originate in the same place -- the desire to believe that George Lucas had everything planned out from the beginning, a myth that Lucas himself has helped to perpetuate over the years.
