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Title: 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
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