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Multi-word Results
| fairy tale |
a fictitious, sometimes incredible, imaginative story, often involving giants, ogres, elves, or other magical creatures and characters. [2 definitions] |
| folk tale |
a story of anonymous authorship, passed on orally by the common people of a region or country, and often incorporating the myths and legends of that people, or including a moral. |
| old wives' tale |
a superstition, usu. embodied as a folk tale or bit of folk wisdom. |
| tall tale |
a story that is unlikely to be true and often involving elements that are clearly exaggerated. |
| The Canterbury Tales |
an unfinished series of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century. |
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