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Marchen

noun as in fairy tale

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The story of Joseph and the marchen of Jean de l'Ours are well-known examples.

This incident is even more common in the marchen or household tales than in the regular tribal or national myths of the world.

Here then we have in the Hesiodic myth an old marchen pressed into the service of the higher mythology.

In many of Grimm's marchen, miracles are wrought by the repetition of snatches of rhyme.

These common facts are the threads (as we have said) in the cloth of myth and marchen.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to Marchen, such as: fable, fairy story, ghost story, legend, myth, and tale.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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