Definition of "fables" []

• Plural form of fable. (noun)

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• "The King James Version uses the word fables, which translates to the Greek word for myths, which is muthos ."
• "And from the remembrances thus preserved and transmitted by tradition, each generation obscuring or exaggerating them, have descended what we call fables of antiquity, -- great facts, now dimly remembered and darkly presented, as shadowed over by the mists of long ages."
• "Fairies as commonly understood in fables and fairy tales are not of that sort."