Top 15 Urban Legends and Myths
Top 15 Urban Legends and Myths

Author: Jade Summers

Publisher: Jade Summers

Published: 2024-06-20

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13:

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📚 Top 15 Urban Legends and Myths 📚 Dive into the spine-chilling world of urban legends and myths that have terrified generations. From haunted hotel rooms to mysterious creatures lurking in the shadows, this book uncovers the eerie tales that continue to captivate our imaginations. Highlights: 🏨 The Haunting of Room 13: Discover the mystery behind the vanishing guests and cursed mirrors. 🪞 The Legend of Bloody Mary: Explore the origins and encounters of this terrifying ritual. 🦇 The Hook-Handed Man: Unearth the terrifying stories of this infamous urban legend. 👻 The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs: A chilling tale that will make you double-check your locks. 🚗 The Vanishing Hitchhiker: Stories of ghostly passengers that disappear without a trace. 🖼️ The Curse of the Crying Boy Painting: Learn about the cursed artwork that survived numerous fires. 🦎 The Chupacabra: Investigate the myth of this blood-sucking creature. 🌉 The Mothman Prophecies: Unravel the mystery behind the sightings and the tragic bridge collapse. 🪆 The Haunted Doll: Understand the terrifying antics of a possessed plaything. 🦇 The Jersey Devil: Encounter the creature that haunts the Pine Barrens. 🖤 The Black-Eyed Children: Beware the children with haunting black eyes. 🌊 The Legend of La Llorona: Hear the weeping woman's cries near the water. 🚪 The Slender Man: Delve into the unnerving abductions linked to this faceless entity. 🏚️ The House of the Seven Gables: Enter a house plagued by curses and shadowy figures. Get ready to be thrilled and chilled by tales that blur the line between reality and the supernatural. Perfect for fans of horror and folklore, this collection is sure to keep you up at night.

Be Afraid Be Very Afraid
Be Afraid Be Very Afraid

Author: Harold Jan Brunvand

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004-10-05

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780393326130

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A collection of over ninety frightening urban legends, arranged by theme.

Urban Legends
Urban Legends

Author: Ngaire E. Genge

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2010-06-09

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0307560937

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Urban Legends is a remarkably complete collection of the modern myths that make the rounds in offices, college dorms, and every other place where people tell the stories that spring from our deepest fears and fascinations. Every culture has its folktales including ours. Except, instead of involving gods and goddesses or princes and princesses, ours involve "some guy my sister's best friend knows" or "someone who woke up in a motel room." They happened, supposedly, to real people, usually recently, in a particular place. And they touch the most sensitive nerves of our psyches with ironic twists, gross-out shocks, and moral lessons learned the hard way. From the classic tale "The Mexican Pet" in which the "dog" turns out to be no Chihuahua to the more unappetizing story of condoms as fast-food burger garnish, from surgically skilled kidney thieves to sexual experiments that end in the emergency room, Urban Legends relates more 300 of the most enticing, macabre, and unforgettable tales. Expertly told, they are arranged in such chapters as "Crazy Little Thang Called Sex," "Oh, Scare Me," "Campus Capers," "Corporate Convolutions," and "So Much For Comfort Food." Fascinating, chilling, and occasionally repulsive, Urban Legends has all your favorites and hundreds more.

Top 15 Creepy Legends from Different Cultures: A Historical Look at The Supernatural
Top 15 Creepy Legends from Different Cultures: A Historical Look at The Supernatural

Author: Jade Summers

Publisher: Jade Summers

Published: 2024-07-02

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13:

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🕵️‍♂️ Explore the Dark Side of Folklore! 🌍 Dive into the spine-chilling world of supernatural legends from around the globe with "Top 15 Creepy Legends from Different Cultures: A Historical Look at The Supernatural". From the misty mountains of Scotland to the sunburned vistas of Australia, uncover the eerie tales that have both terrified and fascinated humanity for centuries. Each story is meticulously crafted with historical context and cultural significance, offering not just a scare but a deep understanding of the cultures they originate from. Highlights: Historical Context: Each legend is rooted in its cultural and historical background. Global Journey: Stories from various cultures, including Latin America, Japan, and Europe. Creepy Illustrations: Visuals that bring the eerie tales to life. Cultural Insights: Learn about the societal impacts and historical origins of each legend. For Everyone: Whether you're a skeptic, believer, or just love a good story, this book is for you! 🌌 Prepare to encounter ghosts, ghouls, and otherworldly beings! 🕯️

Word Myths
Word Myths

Author: David Wilton

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-11-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0199740836

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Do you "know" that posh comes from an acronym meaning "port out, starboard home"? That "the whole nine yards" comes from (pick one) the length of a WWII gunner's belt; the amount of fabric needed to make a kilt; a sarcastic football expression? That Chicago is called "The Windy City" because of the bloviating habits of its politicians, and not the breeze off the lake? If so, you need this book. David Wilton debunks the most persistently wrong word histories, and gives, to the best of our actual knowledge, the real stories behind these perennially mis-etymologized words. In addition, he explains why these wrong stories are created, disseminated, and persist, even after being corrected time and time again. What makes us cling to these stories, when the truth behind these words and phrases is available, for the most part, at any library or on the Internet? Arranged by chapters, this book avoids a dry A-Z format. Chapters separate misetymologies by kind, including The Perils of Political Correctness (picnics have nothing to do with lynchings), Posh, Phat Pommies (the problems of bacronyming--the desire to make every word into an acronym), and CANOE (which stands for the Conspiracy to Attribute Nautical Origins to Everything). Word Myths corrects long-held and far-flung examples of wrong etymologies, without taking the fun out of etymology itself. It's the best of both worlds: not only do you learn the many wrong stories behind these words, you also learn why and how they are created--and what the real story is.

Urban Legends
Urban Legends

Author: Thomas J. Craughwell

Publisher: Hachette+ORM

Published: 2012-07-17

Total Pages: 619

ISBN-13: 1603762639

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A fascinating, creepy, frightening, disgusting, and hilarious collection of some of the world's most popular and enduring tall tales. With themes that run the gamut from funny to sick, risqué to informative, and frightening to disgusting, Urban Legends features fantastic yarns that are remarkable for their uncanny ability to travel the world by word of mouth. We've all heard the one about the alligators that roam New York City's sewers, or how "Mikey" of Life Cereal fame died from eating Pop Rocks mixed with Coke. And what about the flustered parents who left their baby on the car roof, or the scuba diver who was found in the middle of a forest after a fire? These classic tall tales are featured here in all of their creepy glory along with hundreds of others, and they're guaranteed to amuse, enlighten, and intrigue, but be careful: they may stick in your mind forever.

Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends
Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends

Author: Jan Harold Brunvand

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2001-10-17

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780393320886

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A collection of oft-repeated urban legends brings together the best of modern myths, from the stoned baby sitter who mistook a baby for a turkey to the fabulously expensive recipe for chocolate chip cookies.

Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
Encyclopedia of Urban Legends

Author: Jan Harold Brunvand

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 9780393323580

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Presents descriptions of hundreds of urban legends and their variations, themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre, including such tales as disappearing hitchhikers and hypodermic needles left in the coin slots of pay telephones.

Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends
Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends

Author: Charles E. Lance

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-10-18

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1135269653

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This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are sustained, in part, upon sound rationale and justification and, in part, upon unfounded lore. Some examples of these "methodological urban legends", as we refer to them in this book, are characterized by manuscript critiques such as: (a) "your self-report measures suffer from common method bias"; (b) "your item-to-subject ratios are too low"; (c) "you can’t generalize these findings to the real world"; or (d) "your effect sizes are too low". Historically, there is a kernel of truth to most of these legends, but in many cases that truth has been long forgotten, ignored or embellished beyond recognition. This book examines several such legends. Each chapter is organized to address: (a) what the legend is that "we (almost) all know to be true"; (b) what the "kernel of truth" is to each legend; (c) what the myths are that have developed around this kernel of truth; and (d) what the state of the practice should be. This book meets an important need for the accumulation and integration of these methodological and statistical practices.