A product of the imagination.
A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
Scientists debunk the myth that gum stays in the human stomach for seven years.
An invented story, theory, or concept.
A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality.
A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
Such stories as a genre.
A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.