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| Noun: a tale, especially a long story of adventure or incredible happenings |
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| Noun: the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc., of a people |
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| Noun: any belief or story passed on traditionally, especially one considered to be false or based on superstition |
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| Noun: A folk hero is a person, who may or may not have existed, and is famous and well liked by people, or people of a certain country |
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| Noun: an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse |
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| Noun: a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical |
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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 |
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| Noun: a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue |
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| Noun: a poem, play, picture, etc, in which the apparent meaning of the characters and events is used to symbolize a deeper moral or spiritual meaning |
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| Noun: an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text |
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| Noun: a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson. |
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| Noun: A fanciful or greatly exaggerated story |
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| Noun: A simple narrative song, or a narrative poem suitable for singing |
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| Noun: noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style |
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| Noun: a main character in an epic whose legendary or heroic actions are central to his/her culture, race, or nation |
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