And this is apparently no mere myth.

"Maybe the name is a mere myth, but it should certainly have some bearing on the case."

They came to regard the scientific facts of their existence as mere myth.

But the scaled green reality before him seemed of much more moment than any mere myth.

A mere myth, according to others.

She appeared to relax then, obviously having dismissed the wisdom of the ancients as mere myth and folklore.

"You used to refer to stories of its existence as mere myths."

But this is just mere myth and part of the folklore of the town.

Velikovsky put forward the psychoanalytic idea of "Cultural Amnesia" as a mechanism whereby these literal records came to be regarded as mere myths and legends.

Was it possible, really possible, vampires were more than mere myth?