Synonyms:
legend, fable
Meaning: a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
Usage examples
A LEGEND OF THE DAWN
This was the golden legend: "BUILT, 1770.
Then, told in his most dreamy tones, the legend begins.
"Built out of doll's eyes to contain idols"--that, at all events, is the legend and the joke.
Jesus on his cross must dwindle to a point, even in the realms of legend under Prometheus on Caucasus.
You may have observed that I twice strolled over to the window while Dr. Mortimer was reading his legend."
The event passed into a legend, and afterwards, when later instances of pluck and endurance were spoken of, the boys would say, "By golly!
Berwin--so called--was dead, his assassin had melted into thin air, and the Silent House had added a second legend to its already uncanny reputation.
It was perhaps stupid of me, but the story of Mistrelde, who died young, leaving only eight children, I had regarded as a mere legend or fable of antiquity.
In one fragmentary legend which was preserved in the tablet-library of Ashur-banipal, the Assyrian monarch, Etana obtained the assistance of the Eagle to go in quest of the Plant of Birth.