- A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a
belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which
often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient
legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of
prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as
historical. - A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose
actual existence is not verifiable.
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