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My Space: Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-generated content with network of friends, music, photos, bulletins, blogs, groups, and more. Online: myspace

Myth: While common English usage often equates 'myth' with 'falsehood,' scholars use the term slightly differently. A myth is a traditional tale of deep cultural significance to a people in terms . . . View Full Definition

Mythic Analysis: An interpretive strategy of genre analysis that approaches genres in terms of archetypes, stories shared by large segments of a culture which offer the researcher evidence of that society's . . . View Full Definition

Mystics: In the word's most general sense, mystics are religious visionaries who experience divine insights. In medieval scholarship, the term 'mystics' or 'mystic writers' is often used as a collect . . . View Full Definition

Mystery Play: A religious play performed outdoors in the medieval period that enacts an event from the Bible, such as the story of Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, the crucifixion, and so on. Although the orig . . . View Full Definition

Mystery Cycle: A collection of mystery plays in a single manuscript meant to be performed sequentially. See discusion under mystery play, below.

Mystery Novel: A novel focused on suspense and solving a mystery--especially a murder, theft, kidnapping, or some other crime. The protagonist faces inexplicable events, threats, assaults, and unknown forc . . . View Full Definition

Mythography: The commentary, writings, and interpretations added to myths. Medieval writers, such as the four anonymous scribes collectively called the 'Vatican Mythographers,' would take Greek and Roman . . . View Full Definition

Mythology: A system of stories about the gods, often explicitly religious in nature, that possibly were once believed to be true by a specific cultural group, but may no longer be believed as literally . . . View Full Definition

Ortho-Bionomy: Ortho-Bionomy was developed by the British osteopath Dr. Arthur Lincoln Pauls in the 1970s and has since been refined into a comprehensive system of bodywork that includes a person’s energet . . . View Full Definition