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Definition of Myths
1. myth [n] - See also: myth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myths
Literary usage of Myths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"Philosophical myths : inferences become pseudo-history—Geological myths —Effect
... Having discussed the theory of nature-myths, it is worthwhile to gain in ..."
2. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore (1916)
"CHAPTER I myths OF ORIGINS AND THE DELUGE AMONG all the peoples of Indonesia,
the mountain tribes of northern Luzon in the Philippines seem to stand alone ..."
3. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1889)
"BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE myths AND RELIGIONS OF AMERICA. By the Editor.
THE earliest scholarly examination of the whole subject, which has been produced ..."
4. Voltaire by John Morley (1872)
"The inference from this identity or correspondence between some Judaical practices
and myths, and the practices and myths of Arabians, Egyptians, Greeks, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Why did the Greek poets relate divine myths of which we find the parallels ...
But myths precisely similar in irrational and repulsivo character to those of ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"It is extremely difficult to keep these different categories of myths ... If we
examine myths of human descent from animals, we find gods busy there, ..."
7. Oceanic [mythology] by Roland Burrage Dixon (1916)
"CHAPTER I myths OF ORIGINS AND THE DELUGE AMONG all the peoples of Indonesia,
the mountain tribes of northern Luzon in the Philippines seem to stand alone ..."
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