Myths, Fables, Folktales & Legends

a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters

• myth
• legend
• fable
• folktale

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A traditional or legendary story, that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.

• Legend

• Myth

• Fable

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 A story from the past about a historical person who has been exaggerated and changed

• myth
• legend
• fable
• folktale

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Any belief or story passed on traditionally, especially one considered to be false or based on superstition.

• myth
• legend
• fable
• folktale

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Greek god Poseidon who controls the world's oceans with his powerful trident

• myth
• legend
• fable
• folktale

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Paul Bunyan is a story about a giant lumberjack; his story told through oral tradition in US

• myth
• legend
• fable
• folktale

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Count Dracula: a real person who did terrible things but his story was changed to a vampire 

• myth
• legend
• fable 
• folktale

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Tortoise and the Hare (lesson: slow and steady wins the race)

• myth
• legend
• fable
• folktale

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Greek god Atlas holds up the sky on his shoulders (explains why earth is separated from sky)

• myth
• legend
• fable
• folktale

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The Lion and the Mouse (lesson: no act of kindness is ever too small)

• myth
• legend
• fable 
• folktale 

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