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| a tale, especially a long story of adventure or incredible happenings: He spun a yarn that outdid any I had ever heard. |
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| the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc., of a people; lore of a people. |
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| a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people. |
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| A folk hero is type of hero, real, fictional, or mythological. The single salient characteristic which makes a character a folk hero is the imprinting of the name |
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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: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables |
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