Definition of "mythology"

The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55

This program to distinguish Austria from Germany was important to building a new Austria, but it also indirectly contributed to victim mythology by implying that participation in the Nazi war of conquest was antithetical to Austrian identity.

2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria‎, Berghahn Books, page x

This tongue-in-cheek episode is especially fun for people who don’t take their “X-Files” mythology seriously.

2000 April 28, Caryn James (?), As Scheherazade Was Saying ., in The New York Times, page E31, reproduced in The New York Times Television Reviews 2000, Routledge (2001), page 198

Straight people who do not know, or do not know that they know, any gays, can accept all the mythology about us that is paramount in the propaganda of our enemies.

1981 April 4, Donald Vining, “Straight Talk”, in Gay Community News, page 5