0 An apocryphal story is probably not true although it is often told and believed by some people to have happened:
The stories preserved in apocryphal acta to this effect have usually been dismissed as romance.
Some contributions are stimulating, scholarly and scientific while others are contentious or apocryphal.
Like the apocryphal curate's egg, the book is fascinating reading in parts, stupefyingly dull in others.
Although probably apocryphal, the story was given wide currency at the time.
The cacophony of rumours, denunciations, apocryphal tales, sightings, clues and confessions that swept the streets - in many cases before police had even launched their investigation - only intensified the sentiment.
There exist hundreds of these apocryphal stories.
In both folk and punk/indie, this tendency has an elitist aspect, reproducing a central tenet of canonism - the distinction between authentic and apocryphal texts (the religious connotations seem apt).
Eliot saw no religious difference between apocryphal scriptures and canonical ones.
