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A traditional or legendary story, usually dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, heroes or events, that is with or without determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, but is used to explain some practice, rite or phenomenon of nature, or to justify the existence of a social institution. (Source: RHW)

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Lambin EF, Turner BL, Geist HJ, Agbola SB, Engelsen A, Bruce JW, Coomes OT, Dirzo R, Fischer G, Folke C, George PS, Homewood K, Imbernon J, Leemans R, Li X, Morgan EF, Mortimore M, Ramakrishnan PS, Richards JF, Skånes H, Steffen W, Stone GD, Svedin U 2001. The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths. Global Environmental Change 11 (4) 261-269

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378001000073

Sullivan S, Low C 2014. Shades of the rainbow serpent? A KhoeSan animal between myth and landscape in Southern Africa -Ethnographic contextualisations of rock art representations. Arts (3) 215-244

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