However, many otherwise orthodox Shiahs either reject the traditions altogether, or interpret them allegorically.
— from Five Years in a Persian Town by Napier Malcolm

The fact that others, in narrating events to us, are able to awaken imaginations that afterwards appear as past realities, suggests that much of our supposed early recollection owes its existence to what our parents and friends have from time to time told us respecting the first stages of our history.
— from Illusions: A Psychological Study by James Sully