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By Jan Harold Brunvand
From roasted infants to vanishing hitchhikers to housewives in soccer helmets, this exhaustive and hugely readable encyclopedia offers descriptions of thousands of person legends and their adaptations, examines legend subject matters, and explains scholarly techniques to the style. Revised and elevated to incorporate up to date models of the entries from the award-winning first version, this paintings presents extra entries on quite a lot of new themes that come with terrorism, fresh political occasions, and typhoon Katrina.
Entries in Encyclopedia of city Legends, up-to-date and increased version talk about the presence of city legends in comedian books, literature, movie, song, and lots of different parts of pop culture, in addition to the life of "too sturdy to be true" tales in Argentina, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and several international locations. Serving as either an anthology of news in addition to a reference paintings, this encyclopedia will function a beneficial source for college students and a resource e-book for reporters, expert folklorists, and others who're gaining knowledge of or attracted to city legends.
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Truckers Become Heroes, Villains and Victims in Urban Legends,” Overdrive (October 2000), 56–57. 16. ” 17. ” in Kviedeland and Selberg, Papers IV, 165. This page intentionally left blank A Abductions See “The Attempted Abduction”; Needle-Attack Legends; “The Phantom Clowns” Academe, Legends of College and university campuses, despite being centers of research, learning, and sophistication, are also fertile grounds for the growth of legends and other folklore. ” That is, while campus folk are undeniably literate, much of their shared lore of campus life and traditions is transmitted not in print but by means of customary example and word of mouth, more recently aided by electronic communication.
References: Baby Train, 70; Too Good, 224; Be Afraid, 149–150. “The Accidental Stickup” This legend is based on the familiar unwitting-theft theme in which an innocent person is mistaken for a thief and is robbed in retaliation by his or her supposed victim. The assumed “victim” in this case is a person who sets out shopping with just a single bill ($5, $10, $20, or $50). The shopper suddenly realizes that his or her money is gone, believes that a passerby has stolen it, and fiercely demands—and receives—the money back.
Paul Harvey repeated a version from a Dallas listener on the air in 1987, and a report of speeches by Marine Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North of the Iran-Contra scandal revealed that he told the story during a lecture tour in 1988. Earlier legends sharing at least one motif with this legend were “The Dead Cat in the Package” and one about a stolen dog corpse; “The Air-Freighted Pet” is itself the likely ancestor of “The Hare Dryer” (or “Resurrected Rabbit”) legend that emerged strongly in 1988. , 156–158; Too Good, 43–44.