urban legend
How old is the term "urban legend"? Why "urban"rather than small town, or village, etc.? Stephensburmese
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From Wikipedia:Jan Harold Brunvand, Professor of English, first promoted the concept of the urban legend in his 1981 book The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings....
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Brunvand is largely responsible for the current wide use of the term, but did not coin it (nor, IIRC, did he claim to; I can't find my copy of The Vanishing Hitchhiker at the moment, but I'm pretty...
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An Inuit indian in the popular "Northern Exposure", who could be characterized as a "Dutch Uncle type", came in to Cisaly, in order to understand the "White-man", by examining his "mythical legends"....
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I have seen Urban legend wrongly translated into Dutch as stadslegende. But that would translate back as city legend and obviously that is not the same thing. More correct (correctness comes in...
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And to explicitly answer the question of why "urban," that word is used because the legends are those found in a modern society, which is heavily urbanized. "Urban legends" can be in a pastoral...
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