folk myth in a sentence

Examples

1. Some historians dismissed the story as a folk myth, claiming that the image on the cakes had originally represented two poor women and that the story of the conjoined twins was invented to account for it.
2. According to Bergen, known for conducting the first television interview with bin Laden in 1997, the idea that " the CIA funded bin Laden or trained bin Laden . . . [ is ] a folk myth.
3. And, expressing the vague bafflement caused by all the best figures of urban folk myth, people will nearly always follow up with a question : " I always wondered _ what exactly is she about ?"
4. The exhibit launched Tapaya's direction in painting based on folk myths and narratives and signified a change of styles from his signature burlap paintings, a material which has gained some popularity and copied by other Filipino painters.
5. However, CNN journalist Peter Bergen, known for conducting the first television interview with Osama bin Laden in 1997, calls the idea " that the CIA funded bin Laden or trained bin Laden . . . a folk myth.
6. The concept was developed based on comparative mythology by Jacob Grimm in " Deutsche Mythologie " ( 1835 ) as a folkloristic survival of Germanic pagan tradition, but comparable folk myths are found throughout Northern, Western and Central Europe.
7. Anglos justified this with a number of folk myths about Mexicans, none true : They like to do menial work; they are content with subsistence wages; they are indolent and passive by nature; they want to go home after a while.
8. Sheng uses an ancient Chinese folk myth " of a perfect ` heavenly love'that can exist even between different species, " in his words, as a metaphor for a sort of ultimate Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk, unifying theater with opera, both Western and Chinese.
9. He wrote, however, that Hemmings's position was understandable when considering the criticism that Summerhill and Neill withstood from " conventional educational wisdom " and " horrified hearsay ", which had turned the school into " a type of scholastic folk myth " to set straight.
10. Medical and aid workers say the extent of rapes is unusually large here for two reasons : Rape has been used as a weapon in both the political conflict and overlapping tribal fighting, and there is a widely believed folk myth in the region that sex with young virgins cures AIDS.