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Sourced using AI1947 · Austria, locality to be established
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Hagåtña, Guam
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Stanleyville, Belgian Congo (now Kisangani)
Read record →Sourced using AIAugust 1882 · Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1972 · Bogotá and Cundinamarca
Read record →Sourced using AICompiled 720; entries from earlier centuries · Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Read record →Sourced using AI1986 · Iqaluit, Nunavut region
Read record →Sourced using AIApril 1897 · San Jose, California, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI23 November 1953 · Near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan–Ontario border
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Fairbanks, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · San Luis Obispo County, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, Connecticut
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval–early modern texts; living folklore · Japan, especially rivers and ponds
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Mobile, Alabama
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Naples, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · Aegean Sea airspace, Greece
Read record →Sourced using AI2007 (date uncertain) · Near Istanbul, Turkey
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Sydney, New South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AICuban urban legends and travel accounts circulating after 2010 · Havana
Read record →Sourced using AI1896–1897 · Cape Town, Cape Colony
Read record →Sourced using AI7 July 1947 · Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1557; expanded and reworked in later editions · Brazil, especially French Antarctic Brazil
Read record →Sourced using AI2008–2010 (year uncertain) · Bloemfontein, Free State
Read record →Sourced using AI1966 · Cork Airport, County Cork, Ireland
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Veracruz, Veracruz
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1979 · New Hampshire and North America
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016; individual dates require confirmation · Detroit, Michigan
Read record →Sourced using AI1920s–1946 · New Zealand, especially Auckland and Wellington
Read record →Sourced using AI930s onward; medieval and early modern elaborations · Kantō and Kanda, Tokyo, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Santiago and central Chile
Read record →Sourced using AI1946 · Albany, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI28 January 1994 · Near Paris, France
Read record →Sourced using AI2010s · Bled, Slovenia
Read record →Sourced using AI1st century CE · Rome
Read record →Sourced using AI2016 · Nsanje District
Read record →Sourced using AI1986–1988 · Southington, Connecticut
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Queensland, Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Don Muang, Bangkok
Read record →Sourced using AI1885–1888 Burton translation; tale in the Arabian Nights tradition · Egypt, Syria, seas, and legendary cosmic realms
Read record →Sourced using AI1968–1971 · San Diego County, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Seville
Read record →Sourced using AILate 12th century; account by H. of Saltrey after a reported 1150s visit · Lough Derg, County Donegal; Latin literary production in England
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s · Indonesia, especially Java
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary 5, 2009 · Morris Plains, New Jersey
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 · Europe, especially France, Britain and West Germany
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