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Webster 1913 Edition
Myth
Myth
(mĭth)
, Noun.
[Written also
mythe
.] [Gr.
μῦθοσ
myth, fable, tale, talk, speech: cf. F. mythe
.] 1.
A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.
2.
A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
As for Mrs. Primmins’s bones, they had been
myths
these twenty years. Ld. Lytton.
Myth history
, history made of, or mixed with, myths.