Mythology represents a body of myths. Over the past seventy years a great deal of propaganda has become mythology with a life of its own, growing and changing with each retelling. Myths were not only resurrected and embellished by propagandists, but by well- intended journalists and others attempting to understand and to justify the Serbian wars of aggression. Regardless of the motivation of those who repeat the myths, the result is always the same. Another generation is introduced to the mythology created to keep the Croatian nation in bondage.
Some myths are new, others are very old.
The myth of the forty-one children reported on one day and retracted the next will no doubt find its way into some history book, somewhere, as fact. On the following pages both the established myths and merging myths will be explored and exposed to reality. Some have simple explanations, others are more complex. Some are gruesome, and distasteful. This monograph is intended to shed light, not heat and to bring the myths from the shadows into the realm of reality.