Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Myth"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Myth \Myth\, n. [Written also {mythe}.] [Gr. my^qos myth, fable,
tale, talk, speech: cf. F. mythe.]
1. 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.
2. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose
actual existence is not verifiable.
As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths
these twenty years. --Ld. Lytton.
{Myth history}, history made of, or mixed with, myths.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
myth
n : a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain
the world view of a people
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