They are pervasive cultural myths, inherited fabrications you probably grew up with.
Not only killings but also some fabrications.
The chief prosecutor's allegations of Sudanese government responsibility for the atrocities was "the mother of all fabrications", Sudan's ambassador to the UN proclaimed in December.Mr Moreno-Ocampo had hoped that his very public hints that his sights were set on Mr Bashir might persuade him to co-operate.
Virginia Woolf was given, in the words of one biographer, to "wonderful performances in conversation, spinning off into fantastic fabrications while everyone sat around and, as it were, applauded".
Mr Erdogan has denounced these as fabrications, and blamed a network of judges, prosecutors and police linked to Fethullah Gulen, a powerful Sunni Muslim cleric based in Pennsylvania.
But increasingly the battle seems to be one over methodological choices and data interpretation rather than major data errors or fabrications, as the initial FT work suggested.
They also suggest that Venezuelan army officers helped the FARC to obtain small arms, such as rocket-propelled grenades, and to set up meetings with arms dealers.Venezuelan officials have dismissed the documents as fabrications.
Mr Kuchma has always said the tapes, which have him plotting Mr Gongadze's elimination in exquisitely foul language, were fabrications.
In a self-published book, Mr Fleishman argues that the testimony of both was littered with fabrications, including phone conversations that never took place.
Serbia's Ministry of Information fills you in on setbacks that NATO may be reluctant to own up to, as well as palpable fabrications.
Yet Unscom could easily redecorate its offices with the many "full, final and complete" declarations that Iraq has made over the years and that the inspectors have shown to be fabrications.
