2  definitions  found 
 
  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  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mythe  \Mythe\,  n. 
  See  {Myth}.  --Grote. 

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