Here something of the divine nature of his former lord, who was the great foe of all Trolls, seems to have been passed on in popular tradition to the animal who had seen so many adventures with the great God who swayed the thunder.
In popular tradition,[700] Lakhmu survived as a name of a mythical monster.
All the earliest gods conceived of by popular tradition as existing from the beginning of things are viewed as manifestations of Anu, or of Anu and Anatum in combination.
Her existence is purely theoretical--a creation of the schools without any warrant in popular tradition, so far as we can see.
Thus strangely do we find the romantic tales of the old troubadours, once familiar through medieval Europe, located by popular tradition in the district of Strathmore.
Some of these rude memorials still remaining in the districts immediately surrounding the Scottish capital, suffice to show the enduring tenacity of popular tradition.
Such is the regular privilege of popular tradition, and it happens without deliberate intention, except that of bringing vividly before us the common interpretation of the fact.
These are both curious and instructive specimens of the manner in which names of places and persons undergo changes in their transmission from generation to generation by popular tradition.
Referring to this subject, Kelly exclaims:-- "Amazing toughness of popular tradition!
These, popular tradition says, Tarquin expressly made for the insertion of his thumb and finger when engaged in hurling the ponderous mass as a "quoit" or plaything.
Evidently here the tortoise occupies the same place as, in popular tradition, the lunar whale recorded by us in the chapter on the Fishes.
Not only the egg of the hen is a symbol of abundance, but even the bones of fowls served in popular tradition to represent matrimonial faith and coition.
In popular tradition, we also have the contrary form of the same myth, that is, the beautiful maiden who becomes a serpent again.
Some have thought to find in this fact an explanation of the murders in these ballads and in the Bluebeard stories, and, according to Rochholz, this theory has been adopted into popular tradition in the Aargau.
Tales of this description still maintain themselves in popular tradition.
There is a popular tradition that an Ivy cup has the property of separating wine from water--the former soaking through, and the latter remaining.
Popular tradition associates St. John the Baptist with numerous marvels of the plant world.
The woodcutter is therefore a favourite figure in popular tradition.
The fox's tail has such a bewitching power of attraction, that according to popular tradition, when it is moved the cock falls down unable to resist the charm.
This is the giant of popular tradition, whom the gigantic phantasy of Rabelais has coloured in order to make him the butt of an immense satire.
Dunstanborough Castle] is, by popular tradition, ascribed to the Picts.
What appears to be a popular tradition relating to the time when the territory of the mound-dwelling Pechts was beginning to be invaded and settled by colonists of another race, is furnished us by Sir Walter Scott.
A popular tradition, to be presently referred to, also speaks of them as a distinct people in the Clyde valley, during the same century.
Popular tradition, as though unwilling to let David escape from Saul, told of that king's continual pursuit of the outlaw, of the attempt of the men of Ziph (S.
That they have been affected by the growth of popular tradition is patent from the traces of duplicate narratives, from the difficulty caused, for example, by the story of Goliath (q.
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