myth

As the global cultural body Unesco reports, oral historians teach young initiates about "history, laws, rituals, time reckoning, cosmology, myths, rules of conduct, and the function of the Gada system".

They appeared to be focused on “the general myth of supposed widespread Social Security fraud, rather than facts.”

If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other.

People who want to valorize the KKK have an interest in perpetuating the myth that Frank's lynching was justified.

"Listen, I think it's a bit of a myth that I've played the hard man role," Dyer says.