1.   Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink.

2.   She found that local legends and place names corresponded accurately with the particular sector of the zodiac where they were found.

3.   His devilment at school remains the stuff of local legend.

4.   She wants to discover more about the history and local legends of Melsonby.

5.   Andy Johnson and Bobby Spencer, both lifelong residents and members of the Town Council, mounted campaigns to replace the local legend.

6.   As it turned out, of course, it took Thunder Dan, as he became known in local legend, about one minute to make fans feel silly.

7.   A local singing legend nicknamed the Voice of the Valleys, Jack drives his van around wearing a plastic Luciano Pavarotti mask and belting Puccini arias through loudspeakers.

8.   According to local legend, David Crockett camped at a nearby spring while traveling from Nacogdoches to San Antonio to fight in the Texas Revolution.

9.   According to local legend, nurnbergers are as slim as they are because they were illicitly passed through the keyholes of taverns after closing time.