[barbacoa]in my mind, if is something is fictional it does not always follow that it 'mythological'.

[barbacoa] mythological and fictional is an old chestnut, and I still think there is a difference, even though it may be subjective and open to personal interpretation.

• abstract solely because fictional
• someone we might have been told about in childhood

• mythological
• a cartoon
• in a Disney/Pixar movie
• a hobbit
• a character in a movie or play
• originally in a book
• in a folk tale
• in the Bible
• Gilgamesh, Father Christmas, Flaubert's parrot, the Sandman, or the tooth fairy.