Myth Quotes - Page : 3

A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, (uncountable) such stories as a genre Myth was the product of man's emotion and imagination, acted upon by his surroundings.
(E.
Clodd, Myths & Dreams (1885), 7, cited after OED) A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality.
A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend Father Flanagan was legendary, his institution an American myth.
(Tucson (Arizona) Citizen, 20 September 1979, 5A/3, cited after OED)