All myth synonyms

noun myth

• parable — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
• imagination — the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
• illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• superstition — a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
• legend — a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical.
• tale — a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
• fantasy — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
• fable — 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.
• lore — the space between the eye and the bill of a bird, or a corresponding space in other animals, as snakes.
• fiction — works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
• tradition — the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, especially by word of mouth or by practice: a story that has come down to us by popular tradition.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• saga — a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.
• apologue — an allegory or moral fable
• creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
• fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
• figment — a mere product of mental invention; a fantastic notion: The noises in the attic were just a figment of his imagination.
• invention — the act of inventing.
• allegory — An allegory is a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political.
• fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
• folk tale — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
• mythos — the underlying system of beliefs, especially those dealing with supernatural forces, characteristic of a particular cultural group.
• fairy tale — a story, usually for children, about elves, hobgoblins, dragons, fairies, or other magical creatures.
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.