Definitions

1. Urban legends are those bizarre but believable stories that pass by word of mouth aas gospel truth.
2. Urban legends are in many ways the folklore of the people, being spread informally through word of mouth as well as over the Internet.
3. Urban Legends are everywhere, always happening to a regular person one or two steps too far away to verify the story. (Web site)
4. Urban legends are the sum of all our subconsicious fears, hopes, and desires.
5. Urban legends are a quirky subdivision of folklore.

Sites

1. There are many sites that deal with virus warnings, hoaxes and urban legends.
2. Lynn's Links is an occasional column covering such topics as Internet scams, urban legends, hoaxes, virus alerts, and Internet sites of interest.

Sarah

1. Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.
2. Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.

Virus Hoaxes

1. Help combat urban legends & hoaxes! How many email and virus hoax messages do you receive per month? Too many, no doubt.

Folklore Urban

1. A website devoted to American folklore and urban legends.

Legends Archive

1. The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, myths, and folklore.
2. Material about Estonian shamanism, urban legends, ethnomusicology, popular calendar data, and general folk belief.
3. This category in other languages: Spanish (3) AFU and Urban Legends Archive - Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group.
4. This category in other languages: Spanish (3) AFU and Urban Legends Archive Cool - Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group.

Computer Virus

1. Vmyths.com - Learn about computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends, hysteria, and the implications if you believe in them.
2. Truth About Computer Virus Myths and Hoaxes Learn about computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends, hysteria, and the implications if you believe in them.

Reference Pages

1. Urban Legends Reference Pages - Urban legends and bits of netlore are currently getting dumped into people's inboxes.
2. Mikkelson and her husband, David, track down such stories for their Web site, the Urban Legends Reference Pages at www.snopes.com. (Web site)

Hoaxes Urban

1. Visit any of the following Web sites for further information about Internet hoaxes and urban legends.
2. Almost three weeks after the attacks, rumors, hoaxes and urban legends continue to crowd the Internet. (Web site)

Collection

1. Compilation of famous urban legends, scare mails, and scams.
2. Calypso's Urban Legends Small collection of famous urban legends.
3. Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.
4. Urban Legends & Modern Myths- Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore.
5. Darwin Awards Urban Legends Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true.

Internet Hoaxes

1. A good list of Internet hoaxes, urban legends and other digital lies is at UrbanLegends.
2. Urban Legends - allows you to look at the current Internet Hoaxes and Rumors.
3. Common E-mail Hoaxes A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email.

Mining Co

1. Your mining co. guide to urban legends and folklore. (n.d.).
2. Don't Spread That Hoax! Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet.
3. Learn how to avoid the pitfalls of the Web, master the search engines, debunk urban legends, and more.
4. HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.
5. David Emery’s site at About.com (which used to be Mining Co.) is an excellent resource for debunking urban legends.

Society Folklore

1. Just for Fun AFU & Urban Legends Archive Large collection of urban legends taken from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group.

Research Centre

1. Lists of annotated links to hoaxes, scams, and urban legends.
2. Weird USA Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings.
3. Urban Legends Research Centre Archive of annotated urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost legends, and superstitions, with FAQ.

Harold Brunvand

1. The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt.
2. The noted folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand has written a first book about one of the most common forms of contemporary folklore - the urban legends.

Beliefs Gathered

1. Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net.
2. All of these are email hoaxes or 21st century "Urban Legends".
3. There is an entire family of urban legends I want to squish in one fell swoop.
4. Monkeyburgers - Tasty Urban legends Includes urban legends circulating in the Netherlands.
5. From the collection of Arthur Goldstuck, South Africa's foremost authority on urban legends.

Legends Folklore

1. About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.

Com

1. UrbanLegends.com -- lists virus hoaxes and Urban Legends.
2. About.com Urban Legends and Folklore: www.urbanlegends.about.com. (Web site)

Categories

1. Culture > Traditions > Folklore > Urban Legends
2. Society > Folklore > Literature > Urban Legends /

Subcategories

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