A common medieval belief was that those prone to anger had an excess of yellow bile or choler (hence the word "choleric").

This is based on the medieval belief that flies could enter a person's head and cause mental illness.

Mephistopheles now personifies Greed, one of the seven deadly sins in medieval Christian belief.

Barber has linked this charge to medieval folklore about magical heads, and the popular medieval belief that the Muslims worshipped idols.

That legal mouthful, which some experts criticize as confusing, dates back to a medieval belief known as the wild beast test.

Gift book wisdom: It was a medieval belief that an ostrich hatched its eggs by staring at them, thus becoming a symbol of meditation.

Chinks of light into medieval beliefs are sometimes provided in accounts of miracles.

Under medieval belief after feasting the panther will sleep in a cave for a total of three days.

Based on medieval belief that gnomes live in subterranean fire.