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Myth

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified an ancient legend of a god a hero the origin of a race etc a wonder story of prehistoric origin a popular fable which is or has been received as historical

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