Boomerangs are also works of art, and Aboriginals often paint or carve designs on them related to legends and traditions.
It's a standard show of its kind, relating urban legends, conspiracy theories and sensational more-or-less-true stories with the help of cheap special effects and hilariously cheesy re-creations.
It consists of three stanza forms a 10-syllable rhymed couplet, ottava rima, and a seven-line alternately rhymed stanza in which Bokenam relates the legends of 12 women saints (Agatha, Agnes, Anne, Cecilia, Christina, Dorothy, Elizabeth of Hungary, Faith, Katherine of Alexandria, Lucy, Margaret, and Mary Magdalene) and of the 11,000 virgins of the legend of Saint Ursula.
He also took interest in the histories of cities and states, and when he knew them mentioned the circumstances under which they were founded, related myths or legends, wars they had instigated or endured, their expansion or recession, and their celebrities.
Cosmology, cosmogony, generations of kings of the lunar and solar dynasties, myths of the great ascetics (who in some respects eclipse the old gods), and myths of sacred places usually rivers and fords whose powers to reward the pilgrim are often cited and related to local legends, are all important themes in these texts.
Among the Arabs, several legends, related by al-Masudi, were associated with it.
The chief source of legends related to Banai are ovi (pada) or folk songs sung by Vaghyas and Muralis, the male and female bards of Khandoba.
As a character and a hoax, Sheng Long has been described as one of the most famous and well-known legends related to video gaming by publications such as GameDaily and GameSpot.
The frescoes in San Francesco relate the Legend of the True Cross.
But then he relates the legend of a king who wakes up with a corpse around his neck.
Gunn's next two novels were quite different: The Lost Glen (1932) is a bitter story of the Highland people's decline, and Sun Circle (1933) relates the legend of a pagan Viking attack on Christian Caithness.
