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noun

a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.

stories or matter of this kind: realm of myth.

any invented story, idea, or concept: His account of the event is pure myth.

an imaginary or fictitious thing or person.

an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution.

Origin:
1820–30; < Late Latin mȳthos < Greek mŷthos story, word

Related forms

coun·ter·myth, noun

Can be confused: fable, legend, myth (see synonym note at legend).

Synonyms
1. See legend. 3. fiction, fantasy, talltale.

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Myths and misinformation can range from the merely nonsensical to the downright dangerous.

The great white shark: an animal of myths and legend.

Debunking pirate myths reveals how hidden economic forces generate social order.

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Myths and misinformation can range from the merely nonsensical to the downright dangerous.

The great white shark: an animal of myths and legend.

Debunking pirate myths reveals how hidden economic forces generate social order.

The anti-immunization crowd clings to well-worn myths.

These are some of the medical myths that even doctors.

The woman behind these right-wing myths was exceedingly odd.

In this lesson, students will investigate the truth behind common myths about sharks and shark attacks.

Players' relationships with bats have inspired any number of myths and tales.

Here are counterpoints to five prevalent myths about ethanol.

The concept includes a string of myths and a couple of hard truths.

Crawford has been debunking this and other spider myths for several years.

Myths persist in modern culture because of the brain's biological need to impose order on the world.

One of the myths about inoculation was that it did not produce a true smallpox in the patient but a spurious case of chicken pox.

For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.

To read this book is to see myths dissolved and reality reconstructed in all its complexity.

As attempts to locate him came up short, the legend blossomed into myths of an entire city made of gold.

Other myths are represented on inch-high cylinder seals that deliver a visual impact way beyond their size.

It's also a culture with its own ethics, gods, myths and heroes.

The resurrection of myths about stable slave families is not a harmless gaffe, but a reflection of a deliberate amnesia.

Musical myths are sharply deflated by some of these letters.

There are no longer any speakers who can tell such myths.

There are plenty of myths advising how you can better keep the needles on your tree.

Myths regarding the origin of the skill tests abound.

Six myths have persisted throughout the innumerable reports on this historic confrontation.

In particular, they suggest that national myths should be treated reverently:.

The ageless search for the secrets to long life has inspired recent studies that overturn myths and offer promising clues.

One example of the team's outreach involved dispelling myths about hybrid technology.

Have students read two to four fairy tales, stories, or myths from different parts of the world.

It is no wonder that early people's made up a great many myths about the sun being swallowed.

But of the myths of his people he appeared to recall nothing.

Never mind that a few carefully conducted experiments can expose many common practices as myths.

After the preview, the crew talked about a few of the myths they would be attacking this.

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Word Origin & History

myth

1830, from Gk. mythos "speech, thought, story, myth," of unknown origin.

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Myths are "stories about divine beings, generally arranged in a coherent system; they are revered as true and sacred; they are endorsed by rulers and priests; and closely linked to religion. Once this link is broken, and the actors in the story are not regarded as gods but as human heroes, giants or fairies, it is no longer a myth but a folktale. Where the central actor is divine but the story is trivial ... the result is religious legend, not myth." [J. Simpson & S. Roud, "Dictionary of English Folklore," Oxford, 2000, p.254]

General sense of "untrue story, rumor" is from 1840.

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"What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn't stay there any longer and had to go someplace else to make it. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts."

-James Baldwin

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