For too long, careers talks in schools have assumed the common myth that only those with a pitchfork and wellies need apply.

According to the common myth about genies, destroying such a magical item destroys the genie itself.

While his finances were always precarious, he did not live and die in poverty as was the common myth.

An ethnic community shares a common myth of origins and descent, a common history, elements of distinctive culture, a common territorial association, and sense of group solidarity.

The book reveals common myths behind the privacy debate and challenges critics who equate data-usage marketing with for-profit spying.