fable
Noun
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A deliberately false or improbable account (synset 106770602)
subtypes: canard - a deliberately misleading fabricationsame as: fabrication, fiction
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A short moral story (often with animal characters) (synset 106383718)
is a type of: story - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related eventssubtypes: aesop's fables - a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesopspecific instances: pilgrim's progress - an allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678
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A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events (synset 106383036)
associated with:
- grail, holy grail, sangraal - (legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper
- king arthur's round table, round table - (legend) the circular table for King Arthur and his knights
- hagiology - literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saints
- midas - (Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold
- sisyphus - (Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
- tristan, tristram - (Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other
- iseult, isolde - (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other
is a type of: story - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related eventssubtypes: arthurian legend - the legend of King Arthur and his court at Camelotsame as: legend
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