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legend

n. a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

parable, allegory, apologue

n. a short moral story (often with animal characters)

fabrication, fiction

n. a deliberately false or improbable account

yarn, story, tale, narration, narrative

n. the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events; "his narration was hesitant"

epic, epic poem

n. a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

saga

n. a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account

fantasy, phantasy

n. fiction with a large amount of imagination in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"

fiction

n. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

folklore

n. the unwritten literature (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture

ballad, lay

n. a narrative poem of popular origin

yarn, story, tale, narration, narrative

n. the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events; "his narration was hesitant"

fiction

n. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

metaphor

n. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

fantasy, phantasy

n. fiction with a large amount of imagination in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"

folklore

n. the unwritten literature (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture

fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, put-on

n. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

story, fib, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle

n. a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"

copy

n. a secondary representation of an original; "she made a copy of the designer dress"

fake, sham, postiche

n. something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

trick, fast one

n. a cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it"

truth, true statement

n. a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it"

account, story, history, chronicle

n. a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"

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