mythologern.

1604 S. Daniel Vision 12 Goddesses sig. A4 Wherein the Authors themselves are so irregular & confused, as the best Mytheologers.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 207 If it be true as Mythologers [margin Expounders of Morall Tales] affirme, that there was never any Hercules.

1681 H. Dodwell Disc. Sanchoniathon's Phœnician Hist. 107 The most Antient and most Popular Opinions are most likely to have been intended by the Mythologers.

1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. ii. 39 Later mythologers attributed a more numerous offspring to Lycaon.

1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece xi. 323 The popular views of the comparative mythologers.

1961 Philos. Q. 11 85 Dodds distinguishes clearly between the informant of Socrates and the author of the myth;..the latter was a mythologer and author of an old religious poem like the fragments found on the Orphic gold plates.

1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. iv. 152 He [sc. Yeats] was..dislocated..from the Catholic nationalist movement whose poetic mythologer he attempted to become.

2000 Scotsman (Nexis) 8 Aug. 8 The net has given new power to the urban mythologer. Its anonymity allows fantasisers to weave stories and spread them around the globe in a matter of days.