1867 Apr. 227 The myth-building spirit.
1879 M. B. Benton in Apr. 339/2 The whole structure of this Shakespearean myth-building seems to cluster about the central fact..that the world's greatest genius should have been a man of like passions with one of us.
1994 66 583 Many of these mystifications..might be said to participate in the cultural work of myth-building.