Urban Legends

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Urban Legends
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Myths

• Religious origins
• From the past
• Explain the origins of life or define cultural
  values
• May be considered form of history/philosophy.

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Folklore

• Present fictional plots
• Unknown time/place
• Explain how people handle their environment
• Include fantasy elements
• Involve people/animals that talk act like
  people

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Legends

• Tale about the past
• Alleged to be historical
• About people, places or events
• About a king, hero, saint, famous person or war
  figure
• Set in specific time/place

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Urban Legends

• Fictional
• Believable
• Contemporary
• May incl. traditional themes
• Attributed to F.O.A.F.
• Widely circulated

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Wedding Rice

• Rice thrown at
• weddings can
• swell kill birds

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Food

• JELL-O is made from
• cow pig bones,
• skins, hides.

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Fears

• Progesterex, a small
• sterilization pill used by
• vets to sterilize large
• animals, is now being
• used by rapists to rape
• sterilize their victims.

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Odd Behavior

• A man has been
• living at a Paris
• airport since 1988.

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Grotesque?

• Tales of horror
• Appeal to baser senses
• Elements of fear
• Elements of disgust
• Contain comedic elements
• Things we cant classify