The term "mythology" sometimes refers to the study of myths and sometimes refers to a body of myths. For example, comparative mythology's the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology's the body of myths from ancient Greece. The term "myth"'s often used colloquially to refer to a false story; however, the academic use of the term generally doesn't refer to truth or falsity. In the field of folkloristics, a myth's conventionally defined as a sacred narra… (
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