fanciful tale

A fanciful tale it was of how a gypsy princess had been cruelly treated by a wicked man like Anselo Spico.

But the century which elapsed between Godwin's fanciful tale and Brunt's fantastic romance felt the impact of the new science.

Such a scene cannot strike us as unnatural in a purely fanciful tale, when we have learned what could happen in real life.

Is it burglars, or are the flowers giving a ball, as in Andersen's fair, fanciful tale?

In this fanciful tale Plato has dropped, or almost dropped, the garb of mythology.