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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 |
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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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a story, usually for children, about elves, hobgoblins, dragons, fairies, or other magical creatures. |
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a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical. |
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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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a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue |
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| –noun a symbolical narrative |
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a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication |
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a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson. |
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| An exaggerated, unreliable story |
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any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody. |
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| –adjective 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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a main character in an epic whose legendary or heroic actions are central to his/her culture, race, or nation |
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| is type of hero, real, fictional, or mythological. |
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