fabledom

noun 3

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noun

1

All fables, collectively, and the worlds depicted in them.

The animals of all fabledom are absessed by human souls. They think man-thoughts, have man-motives, and do man-deeds.

It begins with a paragraph in the now familiar style: "Incola sum Britanniae," and so forth; but almost immediately Britain is left for fabledom, and we have the Wolf and the Lamb, then the names of Latin poets, then Roman camps, another fable, and so on.

2

Cultural beliefs that are not grounded in fact.

In a time of violent religious excitement the transference was easy from fabledom, Teutonic barbarism, &c., to Christian convents.

For the persnickety, spell the month J-u-l-r-y, but the rule about "r" months and oysters has happily passed into fabledom and can be ignored.

3

The legends of a particular subculture.

That the Seeds were able to parlay their distinctly limited talents as writers, singers and musicians into a rather long and successful career is one of the more miraculous stories in rock fabledom.

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