...nonsmoker for use in antismoking education. In this instance, the myth is defined as referring "to any real or fictional story, recurring theme or character type that appeals to the consciousness of a group by embodying its cultural ideals or by giving expression to deep, commonly-felt emotions." Five...

...of myth. By myth I mean, in the words of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, "any real or fictional story, recurring theme, or...consciousness of a people by embodying its cultural ideals or by giving expression to deep, commonly felt emotions." The specific myth I refer to is one of forming...

...define our notion of myth. One of the definitions of The American Heritage Dictionary (1969, 1970) is: "Any real or fictional story, recurring theme, or...consciousness of a people by embodying its cultural ideals or by giving expression to deep, commonly felt emotions" (869). To this Mantero would add a personal...

...heroes that serve as primordial types in a primitive view of the world 2, A real or fictional story that appeals to the consciousness of a people by embodying its cultural ideals or by giving expression to deep, commonly felt emotions. 3. A fictitious or imaginary person, idea,...

...that we will explore is the myth. The American Heritage Dictionary provides a definition of myth as "a real or fictional story, recurring theme or character...consciousness of a people by embodying its cultural ideals or by giving expression to deep, commonly felt emotions." 2 This definition presents a notion of myth...

...need to define what I mean by myth. I shall take The American Heritage Dictionary (1973) definition: "Any real or fictional story, recurring theme, or...consciousness of a people by embodying its cultural ideals or by giving expression to deep, commonly felt emotions." These are stories that we tell about ourselves...

...primordial types in a primitive view of the world." Or, alternatively but equally telling, it is a "real or fictional story, recurring theme, or character...consciousness of a people by embodying its cultural ideals or by giving expression to deep, commonly felt emotions." The latter definition has obvious resonance...

...of grace and redemption in the most unlikely places? Another dictionary definition of "myth" reads: Any real or fictional story, recurring theme or character...consciousness of a people by embodying its cultural ideals, or by giving expression to deep or commonly felt emotions (Oedipal myth — the myth of Horatio Alger)....

...anything. A mystical or philosophical conception used as a guide, especially for political action. myth. Any real or fictional story, recurring theme, or character...consciousness of a people by embodying its cultural ideals or by giving expression to deep, commonly felt emotions. —Excerpted from The American Heritage Dictionary...

...their function in a reading as the who, what, why, and where. Myth — a story, real or fictional, that appeals to the consciousness of a people by embodying its cultural ideals and/or giving expression to deep, commonly felt emotions. Number cards — the forty Minor Arcana cards...