found: Baldick, C. The Oxford dictionary of literary terms, 2008(tall tale (tall story). A humorously exaggerated story of impossible feats. Several tall stories attributed to the German Baron Münchhausen appeared in the 1780s, but the form flourished in the oral tradition of the American frontier in the 19th century, several tall tales being published by Mark Twain, George Washington Harris, and others.)
found: Cuddon, J.A. A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory, 1998(tall story. A story which is extravagant, outlandish or highly improbable. Usually regarded as false, however good it may be. They are of the same family as fantasy and fairy tale. The epic tradition, and especially the primary epic, contains a good many episodes which are classifiable as tall stories)
found: Merriam-Webster's encyclopedia of literature, c1995(tall tale: narrative that depicts the extravagantly exaggerated wild adventures of North American folk heroes)
found: LCSH, Oct. 21, 2014(Tall tales. UF Bragging tales; Lying tales; Tall talk; Windies (Tales). Here are entered collections of tales characterized by their quality of bragging and exaggeration of the truth)
found: Merriam Webster online, Aug. 27, 2015:fish story (an exaggerated story : a story that is so strange or surprising that it seems very unlikely to be true)
