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Urban Legends (Paperback)
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Urban Legends (Paperback)
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To many, Urban Legends are nothing more than harmless tales told
round a camp fire, in a dormitory or round a table in a pub with
the express aim of provoking a frisson of fear in the listener
through the use of some horrific shock element in a familiar
location and to an unlucky protagonist who is known to a friend of
a friend of a friend. But is there something working at a deeper
level? We have all heard stories of the Deep Fried Rat, the Ghostly
Hitchhiker, the Hook Handed Killer or the Poodle in the Microwave
but should we take them at face value or greet them with scorn and
derision? Did the events in these tales ever really happen or are
they the product of over active imaginations fearful of the outside
world? In this book Nick Harding sets out to describe a host of
Urban Legends suggesting that we should not dismiss them purely as
nonsense nor accept them as gospel truth but by striving to
understand their underlying meanings we begin to see their true
worth as folklore for the modern world. To understand folklore and
therefore the realm of the Urban Legend is to understand the psyche
of a nation. By understanding Urban Legends we can gain an insight
into our own fears and those of our fellow human beings.
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