Myth, Legend, Fable, Parable

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Myth, Legend, Fable, Parable

• Definitions

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Myth

• Traditional story
• Represented as historical
• Serving to explain the world view of a people,
  or
• Explaining a practice, belief, or natural
  phenomenon

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Legend

• Story coming down from the past
• Regarded as historical
• But not verifiable

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Fable

• Story intended to enforce a useful truth
• Involving animals that
• Talk
• Act like human beings

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Parable

• Short fictitious story
• Illustrates
• Moral attitude, or
• Religious principle