1) Handed down 2) Handed down orally 3) Like certain Hawthorne tales 4) Like folk stories 5) Like good jokes 6) Like good stories 7) Like legends 8) Like lore 9) Like many a tale 10) Like old jokes 11) Like oral history 12) Narrated again 13) Narrated anew 14) Narrated differently 15) Passed along gossip 
• imp. & p. p. of Retell.
Re·told' imperfect & past participle of Retell .