Fables, Tales And Myth

Myth
A traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned withdeities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.

A Fable
A fable is a literary genre; it is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that featuresanimals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be expressedexplicitly in a pithy maxim.
A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech and other powers of humankind.The Fox and the Crow,"
"A crow was sitting on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak when a Fox observed her and set his wits to work to discover some way of getting the cheese."Coming and standing under the tree he looked up and said, 'What a noble bird I see above me! Her beauty is without equal, the hue of her plumage exquisite. If only her voice is as sweet as herlooks are fair, she ought without doubt to be Queen of the Birds.

"The Crow was hugely flattered by this, and just to show the Fox that she could sing she gave a loud caw. Down came the cheese and theFox, snatching it up, said, 'You have a voice, madam, I see: what you want is wits.'

"Moral: DO NOT TRUST FLATTERERS"

Tales
Tales: (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) one of a group ofshort stories connected by an overall narrative framework.

Ship of Magic, by Robin Hobb
Ship of Magic, the first installment of a new series called The Liveship Traders, is set in the same world asthe Farseer books, but in a different country and featuring a new, wider range of characters. It also is more ambitious in scope than the Farseer books and is told from many more points of view....