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Another word for myth

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myth

n.

fable, folk tale, legend, religion, lore, saga, folk ballad, mythos (Greek), allegory, parable, tale; see also story.

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Another word for myth

noun

A traditional story or tale that has no proven factual basis:
fable, legend. See belief, real, religion
A body of traditional beliefs and notions accumulated about a particular subject:
folklore, legend, lore, mythology, mythos, tradition. See knowledge
Any fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea:
creation, fantasy, fiction, figment, invention. See belief, real

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At last the myth stopped being repeated.
The name, however, is so obscured by myth and fable as scarcely to belong to history.
With this may be compared the festivals of Adonis and Osiris and the myth of Persephone.
This would leave no time for the growth of his myth.; and his myth was, as is evident from what we have already said and quoted, full-grown in the first half of the 14th century.
Whatever may have been the immediate genesis of the myth - and it may well be sought in the heartless forest laws - its vitality was assured by the English love of archery and historical repetition.

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