Folktale
<p>In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkloristics" title="Folkloristics" >folkloristics</a>, a <b >myth</b> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred" title="Sacred" >sacred</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative" title="Narrative" >narrative</a> usually explaining how the world or humankind came to be in its present form,<sup id="cite_ref-dundesintro_1-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology#cite_note-dundesintro-1" >[2]</a></sup> although, in a very broad sense, the word can refer to any <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_story" title="Traditional story" >traditional story</a>.</p>