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imported>Bessel Dekker (New page: <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude> A '''tall tale''' is a narrative, song or jest, whether orally transmitted or recorded in literature, prsenting an incredible, boastful or impossible st...) |
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A tall tale is a narrative, song or jest, whether orally transmitted or recorded in literature, prsenting an incredible, boastful or impossible story. In a narrow sense, the term refers for American frontier lore. In a wider sense, it is any specimen of mendacious literature.