| gen. | disentangle fact from fiction | отделить факты от вымысла (From her very birth the story of the woman called Mother Shipton has been steeped in so much myth and legend that it is often hard to disentangle fact from fiction. According to the tales, she was supposedly brought into the world in a cave in the Forest of Knaresborough in North Yorkshire, England in 1488, during a violent thunderstorm that mysteriously stopped as she let out not a cry, but a cackle.  mysteriousuniverse.org ART Vancouver) |
