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They maintain that a captured settler named Hans G. Frenchman was taken to the mine by the Indians. He marked its location, and later escaped his captors and revealed the location of the mine to Swift. In this version of the story, Swift and Frenchman took only enough silver to buy two horses, and on a return trip, were unable to locate the ...
An ancient Chinese mythological mountain which, according to old texts, lay to the northwest of the Kunlun Mountains, in a location today referred to as the Pamir Mountains. Mount Penglai: A legendary mountain in Chinese mythology, said to be situated on an island in the Bohai sea, home to Taoist immortals. Moving Sands
The creature was alleged to have attacked a local family. [1] It has since become a part of Arkansas folklore . [ 2 ] Stories of the creature influenced the 1972 docudrama horror film The Legend of Boggy Creek , which became the 11th highest-grossing film of 1972 [ 3 ] and is today considered to be a cult classic .
There is an enduring legend of a cavern full of knights in armour awaiting a call to decide the fate of a great battle for England. There is no king named, but there is a wizard involved, who is referred to as Merlin in later versions of the legend. [16] Kind Dunmail. A Cumbrian King who after defeated at the hands of Edmund I of England and ...
Lyonesse (/liːɒˈnɛs/ lee-uh-NESS) is a kingdom which, according to legend, consisted of a long strand of land stretching from Land's End at the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England, to what is now the Isles of Scilly in the Celtic Sea portion of the Atlantic Ocean.
Later it appeared as "Insula de Brasil" in the Venetian map of Andrea Bianco (1436), attached to one of the larger islands of a group of islands in the Atlantic. [8] This was identified for a time with the modern island of Terceira in the Azores , where a volcanic mount at the bay of its main town, Angra do Heroismo , is still named Monte ...
The following is a list and assessment of sites and places associated with King Arthur and the Arthurian legend in general. Given the lack of concrete historical knowledge about one of the most potent figures in British mythology, it is unlikely that any definitive conclusions about the claims for these places will ever be established; nevertheless it is both interesting and important to try ...
In cartography, a locator map, or just a locator, is typically a simple map used to show the location of a particular geographic region within its larger and presumably more familiar context. Depending on the needs of the cartographer, this type of map can be used on its own or as an inset or addition to a larger map.