He has come to be venerated as Saint Mercurialis, around which fanciful legends have sprung.

A series of fanciful legends has developed about the origin of aiguillettes.

The fanciful legend of its origin is that three convicted felons who had committed a crime together were due to be executed in Stafford gaol.

The storyline of the opera is fashioned from the fanciful legend told by Pierre Bourdelot in his 1715 Histoire de la musique.

However, Thurston's book quotes the Travancore Gazetteer as terming this legend silly and fanciful.

So they have concocted fanciful legends to account for such evidence.

It had been a charming and perhaps not entirely fanciful legend.

Christina is an early virgin martyr with a legend too fanciful to have much historical credibility.

The saints' lives are full of fanciful legend, and in not a few cases contain accounts of 13th century miracles wrought at special places, particularly with reference to the Dominicans.

The fanciful legend endures that one of the prototypes remains intact somewhere.