history vs tale

history

noun
  • A record or narrative description of past events. 

  • A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser. 

  • The aggregate of past events. 

  • Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant. 

  • The portion of the past that is known and recorded by this field of study, as opposed to all earlier and unknown times that preceded it (prehistory). 

  • A set of events involving an entity. 

  • Shared experience or interaction. 

  • The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events. 

  • A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family. 

tale

noun
  • An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie. 

  • A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. 

  • The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim. 

  • A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration. 

verb
  • To reckon; consider (someone) to have something. 

How often have the words history and tale occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )