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Sourced using AI1974 · Wrocław, Poland
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Luanda, Angola
Read record →Sourced using AI1994–1996 · Aalborg, North Jutland
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 1972 · Pike County, Missouri, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1910s · Walvis Bay, South West Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Atlanta metropolitan area, Georgia
Read record →Sourced using AI2003 (exact date requires verification) · Liège area, Belgium
Read record →Sourced using AI2019 · Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Vatican City
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Gothenburg, Västra Götaland
Read record →Sourced using AI1904 · Laredo, Texas, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1996 · Bordeaux region, France
Read record →Sourced using AI1882–1883 · London, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 reception history · Adyar and London
Read record →Sourced using AI2016 · India; Hindi television
Read record →Sourced using AI2010s–2020s heritage reporting · Paris, France
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Basel area
Read record →Sourced using AI1568, attribution requires verification · Portugal, location often given broadly
Read record →Sourced using AI1972 · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Davao City, Philippines
Read record →Sourced using AI1987–1991, date and place to verify · France, location to verify
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Manzini and Mbabane, then Swaziland
Read record →Sourced using AISeptember 1977 · Tartu, Estonia
Read record →Sourced using AI2005 · Busan, South Korea
Read record →Sourced using AIProbably 7th century CE; Latin composition with earlier apocryphal materials · Latin Christian West
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · El Palomar, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Read record →Sourced using AI19 May 1986 · Curitiba, Paraná
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Northern California
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Baltimore, Maryland
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016 · Niš, Serbia
Read record →Sourced using AI1707 · Lima and the Spanish South American Pacific
Read record →Sourced using AI1969–1970 · Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador
Read record →Sourced using AI29 December 2023 · Eastern Poland, near the Belarusian border
Read record →Sourced using AI17th–18th centuries for prominent written examples; older tradition · Tibet and Himalayan Buddhist regions
Read record →Sourced using AI19th century, date uncertain · Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI1916 · New England coastal states
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · India; location varies by report
Read record →Sourced using AIPremodern Islamic tradition; Indo-Persian copies and adaptations before 1800 · South Asian Persianate courts and Sufi networks
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 · Mwinilunga and western Zambia, especially river and swamp country
Read record →Sourced using AI1842 onward; nineteenth-century touring exhibitions · Fiji association; exhibited in New York, London and elsewhere
Read record →Sourced using AI1998–2000 · Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Madison, Wisconsin
Read record →Sourced using AI1993 · Penang Island, Penang
Read record →Sourced using AI1892 · Great Zimbabwe and southeastern Zimbabwe
Read record →Sourced using AIMemorial site developed after 1979; narratives circulated through the 1980s · Choeung Ek, south of Phnom Penh
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Mexico; narrative setting associated with Sonora and central Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Genoa, Liguria
Read record →Sourced using AI2007 · Bukit Mertajam, Penang
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 1290 · Byland Abbey, Yorkshire
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