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myth

myth \'mith\ n [Gk mythos] 1: a usu. traditional story of ostensibly 
   historical events that serves to  unfold part of the world view of a people 
   or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon 2: PARABLE, ALLEGORY  
   3a: a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence  
   3b: an ill-founded belief held uncritically esp. by an interested group  4: 
   the whole body of myths