Some urban legends, even some fairy tales and classic books, become so deeply ingrained

in our culture that many of us are no longer sure which ones are true and which ones are

simple fiction.

And key to those stories are the characters in them, so today we're going to put your

knowledge to the test.

When you guess which of these famous women were real and which were fictional, but we're

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Is she real or is she fictional?

Once again, we're going to put pop culture to the test.

Today we've got a list of 24 women, nearly all of whom you've probably heard of, and

some of whom you're probably not sure if they're real people from history or fictional

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