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" And the other said: 'I remember now that when I first came into this place they told me of a legend that a monk of your name had gone out of this monastery a hundred and fifty years before, and had never come back and had never been heard of again. - "Fairies and Folk of Ireland", William Henry Frost.

Local legend has aged them considerably, for two hundred years is suggested as a modest estimate of their antiquity. - "Highways and Byways in Surrey", Eric Parker.

As for me, I believe in the old, old, apparently foolish legend of Adam and Eve's sin and the curse which followed it- the curse on man is inevitably carried out to this day. - "Vendetta A Story of One Forgotten", Marie Corelli.

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